Word: wistfullness
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The only feasible action was to write off the entire weekend and gawk at the tourists, visiting college students and wistful alums. And listen--to the hi-fi din of dining-hall parties, to the crunch of empty beer cans against foreheads, and to roommate talk.
In the cloistered Italian village of San Gimignano, bold Rosa (Anita Zagaria) is engaged to a town big shot but loves Danilo Lucca (Joseph Long). In a suicidal swoon, the lovers leap from the cathedral tower -- and land, in a flick of Tony Grisoni's supple narrative, in London's...
Both Bull Durham and Field of Dreams echo with the American and Hollywood past. They blend hip showmanship and a vigorous Saturday-matinee innocence. But they work for an audience because Kevin Costner is in them. Virtually unknown three years ago, he is one of the few actors people will...
As an intrepid investigative journalist and wistful senior, I've been going to a lot of senior bars lately trying to find the source of their dubious appeal. After all, the illicit thrill of drinking when you are underage is gone if you're a senior. Three-fourths of the...
But driving across Indiana in early May 1968, searching for Bobby Kennedy's whistle-stop campaign, one heard another chord as well -- Paul Simon's wistful note of mythic disconnection: "Where have you gone, Joe DiMaggio? A nation turns its lonely eyes to you."