Word: wistfullness
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Last week in a letter to the New York Times, a reader named Richard Shramko made an engaging if wistful suggestion: the creation of a "Quality of Life Index." Like a weather service temperature-humidity index, the Q.L.I. would take into account "air and water pollution, the unemployed and those...
Unfortunately, Briscusse feels obliged to make practically everyone else sing a lot. The ever so cute street urchins with the absolutely charming Cockney accents have a comic song, and Bob Cratchit sings a merry Christmas tune, and Tiny Tim gives us a wistful little solo, and Fezziwig's daughter, in...
Billed simply as "Baptiste and Victoria," a handsome man and a big-eyed girl in whiteface have been putting on what they call an "Imaginary Circus" on the streets of French provincial towns and in a small Parisian nightclub. Enthusiastic audiences have been unaware how Victoria comes by her wistful...
But the day we see in the play is a bit different. Jack and Harry greet each other and talk. Not only that. They meet Kathleen and Mariorie, two lower-class women who are earthier and more honest than the genteel men. It is from the women that we learn...
Falk has a splendid time either muscling the opposition in Vegas or quaking before the elegant threats of a capo from New York. Gena Rowlands (Mrs. Cassavetes outside the movies) does the tough-but-tender-broad routine with such wistful sexiness that her heart of gold is almost 24-carat...