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...Freeman's Detective Sommerset does not just pay lip service to being burned-out. His spirit is so heavy we can almost feel its weight. He lives in a world filled with ugliness, and when confronted with beauty, in the form of Tracy Mills, he seems ready to weep...
...Potsdam, that with the forces arrayed against them, "I have given serious thought to the situation prevailing at home and abroad and have concluded that continuing the war means destruction for the nation and a prolongation of bloodshed and cruelty in the world." Some of those present began to weep. "The time has come," Hirohito went on, "when we must bear the unbearable. I swallow my tears and give my sanction to the proposal to accept the Allied proclamation on the basis outlined by the Foreign Minister...
Saigon fell on April 30, 1975, but Vietnam is still with us. A politician's war record--or antiwar record--evokes scorn or approbation; the masterfully manipulative Forrest Gump makes adults weep; we fret over quagmires, and still we can hear the air torn by helicopter blades and see that canted, top-heavy map on the evening news and recall precisely our draft-lottery number or that of our brother or son. Some brothers and sons did not return; they are still with us as well...
...earnest romping on "Rob Roy"'s highland stage. What is it about mediocrity of the sincerest kind that is so especially depressing? If you can't squeeze out the requisite tears over Liam Neeson's trials and tribulations, turn your thoughts to current mainstream moviedom and weep. "Rob Roy" is only symptomatic of a greater...
...judging by the Nielsen ratings, you don't--it's the sacred sailing event that only comes every three years. The one that France spent over 30 million dollars just to enter (half of which came from public funds), and the one that caused Japan's skipper to weep...