Word: weeper
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...From Here to Eternity (1953) Sinatra's comeback film is a great, great weeper. Frank, as third banana to Burt Lancaster and Montgomery Clift, turns in his best performance for $8,000 -- and netted the Oscar. Beyond the seaweed scene, this is also Clift at his tragic best. See it again...
...offers the guilty pleasure of watching other people's troubles, but the show is much finer than any soap. When the competence of Julia (played by Neve Campbell with sensuous innocence and gravity) wounds her ineffectual husband, the moments are pointed and true. Keyser and Lippman produce a discerning weeper, and it has found a large, passionate audience...
...After Tuesday night's Karla Faye weeper, "Nightline" was back to nuts and bolts with explainers on two enemies Clinton can't do without: the rabid right and the ravenous press. The press segment was better, a cameraman's-eye view of a grand jury stakeout...
...other words, not many surprises turn up in Necessary Madness (Putnam; 212 pages; $21.95), a generic weeper with a happy ending. But the novel has enjoyed brisk prepublication chatter, impressive sales of foreign rights and a movie deal thanks to an interesting fact about its author: Jenn Crowell, now a college sophomore, was 17 when she finished the manuscript...
Last week Tailhook victim Paula Coughlin testified that President Bush "started to cry" when she told him about her ordeal. Surprising? Bush, though no match for our current President, is a frequent weeper...