Word: weep
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...those of you who cursed me, who hated me, who never read my column: I hope you're proud of yourselves now, shagstains. I weep bitter tears of anguish...
...crimes is reacting with callous glee. When he enters the courtroom, he grins at the audience and greets them by saying "Boker Tov," Hebrew for "good morning." He then listens without emotion to the chilling testimony against him, yawning and fiddling with his earphones while those on the stand weep. He even tried to shake the hand of one death camp survivor, who "without the slightest doubt" identified him as Ivan...
MORE THAN OCCASIONALLY the Weep-o-meter shoots past "melancholy" to "maudlin". In one scene the young Woody figure--actually a character named Joe--escapes from a spanking when news that a little girl has been trapped in a well prompts a gush of empathy and remorse from Joe's family. Hand me the Kleenex, please...
...Aquino's stunning rise allowed the world a rare chance to suspend its disbelief and exult, 1986 also gave it many more familiar opportunities to distrust its leaders and to weep. Late in the year, the Reagan Administration was suddenly shaken by the disclosure that it had been covertly selling arms to Iran in an attempt to win freedom for American hostages in Lebanon. That dubious policy flared into scandal with the revelation that some of the money received for the arms had been diverted, apparently in violation of congressional laws, to the contra rebels in Nicaragua. As questions multiplied...
...scaling the side of the falls as the good father's newest acolyte, Mendoza insists on toting a heavyweight bag of arms, armor and other accoutrements of civilization. This junk boldly symbolizes the burden of his sins, and watching Mendoza struggle with it, we do not know whether to weep or laugh. But we savor this psychological ambiguity in a movie that is generally much more intent on mining a vague political message from a backwoods imperialist tragedy...