Word: weeping
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Show Business: Making audiences cheer and weep, Forrest Gump...
...unfolded. They have unfolded simply and smoothly, without crash or crescendo, making the story believable. This story could not be told in some fairy tale because this fairy tale is real life. These are what real people do. These are the motives which cause real people to act, to weep, to have sex, and ultimately to suffer...
...belonged to a time -- a tragedy -- when large literary lines did not seem off, or ridiculous, as they might now. Hamlet and Lear, "if worthy their prominent part in the play," wrote Yeats, "do not break up their lines to weep." She, magnificently, did not break up her lines to weep. There was another thought that was associated especially with her husband: Courage is "grace under pressure." But that line applied to her in some truer way than it applied to him. She earned it in a harder fashion...
...knows how Baiul will handle her new celebrity? She dotes on a stuffed rabbit given to her by another idol, skater Jill Trenary. She is a fountain of emotion, weeping at good news or bad. Her American agent, Michael Rosenberg, is exultant at the gold. Asked about his strategy for his young client, he says, "I see her as the next Judy Garland." For the coming phase, Baiul will need all the determination that brought her so far so fast, because that statement is enough to make you weep...
...political organizers. The heroine of her book is Anita Hill, the person most responsible for what Wolf calls the "genderquake." Women felt galvanized by seeing this tenured law professor who "spoke with the accuracy and measured tone of a well-trained attorney, and did not play the victim, weep or rely on recounting the destruction of her life to make her case." Typically, the author does not develop her thoughts about Hill's impact. Instead we get a list of 26 specific "changes" wrought by the hearings, followed by 30 more general citations of their cultural impact, and finally...