Word: weep
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Then, finally, on the sixth day - Sat urday morning - a few of them start to break down. Two of the girls begin weep ng, confessing they have no real knowledge of their own identity. A boy blurts out an intense analysis of his own re lationship with his parents that leaves him sobbing "I've never . . . never been able to love anybody before...
Israel appeared seized by grief over the fate of the Leningrad eleven, and by fear of far wider repercussions for all Soviet Jewry. Tens of thousands came to weep at Jerusalem's Wailing Wall, and, at 10:30 a.m. one day last week, the nation stood in silent prayer as air-raid sirens sounded for two electrifying minutes. On Israeli radio. Premier Golda Meir, in a low, emotion-choked voice, charged that "the present Russian regime is continuing in the tradition of murdering innocent Jews that was common in Czarist Russia...
...stress what the creatures had in common with man. Before angels slid down the ramp of sentimentality at whose bottom they now lie, a perfect balance between their human and spiritual aspects was achieved by, among others, Giotto. The dead Christ was a sight to make angels weep, and in his fresco cycle in the Scrovegni Chapel in Padua, Giotto summed up all its terrible pathos in the little angels that tumble like shot birds...
...play is set in a Stalinist "correctional" prison camp in 1945. It is a place Solzhenitsyn calls "the invisible nation," where "99 men weep and one man laughs." Most of the prisoners are "politicals" whose sentences run from ten to 25 years. Their crimes? "Failure to turn informer." Reading a poem unsanctioned by the regime. Writing a letter calling Stalin "the man with the moustache" and commenting ironically on how bad his Russian is-for which "crime" Solzhenitsyn himself spent eight years in Russian prisons. The prisoners' horizon is a gray-black wall. High up on the wall...
Self-deprecators are often disillusioned romantics, and Candice is no exception. A true Fitzgerald fan, she makes herself weep in films by thinking of Zelda. And like a good Fitzgerald heroine, she has an otherworldly attitude toward beauty, wealth and success. Enchanted dreams are more piquant than fulfilled realities, after all. "My favorite fantasy is Snow White," she muses. "The guy comes riding up on his white charger, and they play, Some Day My Prince Will Come, and I just go crazy. In real life, the guy comes up on his white horse and has terrible acne. The fantasy...