Word: wistfullness
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Still, despite the horror of flames, torn flesh and twisted wreckage staining busy streets, the day was not without marvel. Thursday morning witnessed the realization of one of those rare, wistful hopes every Westerner in the country holds deep within them - that hostages, trussed and secreted away in some anonymous...
It takes a minute to give in to this bizarre, joyful record because at first it sounds like music from Battle of the Network Stars. The mix of blaring late-'70s soul samples, hand claps and exuberant rhymes by female MC Ninja would be tough to take if there were...
But we wait in vain for this catalog of tiny ironies and insights to add up to something wise and new. Is it that the foibles of rich New Yorkers are getting just a little overskewered? Or that McInerney's characters, while capable of surprising themselves and one another, never...
The bank robbers come barging into the bank manager's home, take everybody hostage and order Dad to pop the safe at the branch office. But there's a time lock on the vault, which can not be overridden. That permits everyone to hang around in the living room, getting...
TWENTY THOUSAND STREETS UNDER THE SKY BBC AMERICA, FEB. 11 AND 12, 8 P.M. E.T. This wistful mini-series, based on a 1935 Patrick Hamilton novel, is less love triangle than unrequited love triangle. Plain, earnest pub worker Ella (Sally Hawkins) pines for naive, literary barman Bob (Bryan Dick), who...