Word: yearning
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...suicide in his bathroom, follows him to Spoleto. Director Malle's somewhat awkward purpose in getting her to Italy is to expose her to the flashbulb-popping paparazzi, who destroy her with cameras. The scenery is beautiful, but audiences unaccustomed to BB in a bitter-dregs role may yearn for the bubbly vintage Bardot that used to be one of France's most delicious exports...
...visible part of it. Fascinated as it is with the business of finding better ways to live, the U.S. public wastes little time worrying about whether advertising may be damaging to its collective psyche. It is unlikely that the citizenry will ever take the step some admen seem to yearn for and pass a national vote of thanks to advertising for its part in enriching U.S. life. But it is equally unlikely that the public will ever be suborned out of its unemotional recognition of the adman for what he is: a highly effective salesman without whose efforts the world...
...great are the chances of failure, that nothing precisely and identically human is likely ever to come that way again. There may be wisdom; there may be power; somewhere across space great instruments, handled by strange, manipulative organs, may stare vainly at our floating cloud wrack, their owners yearning as we yearn. Nevertheless, in the nature of life and in the principles of evolution we have had our answer. Of men elsewhere, and beyond, there will be none forever...
...from A Song for the Dance of Death, by the late Belgian Playwright Michel de Ghelderode, performed on CBS's religious series, Lamp Unto My Feet. The program's host hailed Ghelderode as a sort of dark messiah of the implied positive, whose generally malevolent characters actually yearn steadily for God. Other critics have said that in this century of despair, no more despairing voice-they variously compare it to lonesco's and even Brecht's-has rolled through the black caverns of the absurd...
...denial of the human rights that are recognized by every civilized society, and even fraudulently guaranteed by the East German constitution, which pledges: "Every citizen has the right to emigrate." To Germans, the Wall's greatest mischief is its aim of permanently dismembering a divided nation whose people yearn to be reunified. West Berliners themselves must also think of their city's welfare. Said West Berlin's Mayor Willy Brandt last week: "The Wall must go, but until it goes, the city must live...