Word: heartsick
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Andy Kaufman sheds characters like a cold-sufferer discarding Kleenex. He is not only this indomitable overreacher called simply "Foreign Man." He can be, as easily, a lowlife Vegas saloon singer named Tony Clifton; a heartsick yearner after a lost love from the seventh grade; a ringmaster for a kind of rainy-afternoon kiddie show, full of cartoons and silly songs. In all those guises, Andy Kaufman is a little like a stand-up Pirandello. But what adds particular piquancy to his lavish charades is Kaufman's adamant refusal ever to drop his own mask...
...General Sidney B. Berry, 50, the academy's superintendent, fought to get the situation under control. A tough, erect veteran of two wars, Berry confessed to TIME, "I've never been in more of a combat situation than I am now. There are things that make me heartsick in the whole situation-so many young men may have violated the honor code. But, by God, I've been heartsick in battle and done what I have...
...Heartsick, Wiggins studied the document for a third time. He told the Nixon aides that "the case in the House will be hopelessly lost because of this," and that "you have to face the prospect of conviction in the Senate as well." Moreover, he advised, "somebody has to raise with the President the question of his resigning. The country's interest, the Republican Party's interest and Richard Nixon's interest would be served by resignation." St. Clair and Haig acknowledged as much, but observed that it was very difficult for them to broach the subject...
...Salaud!" (bastard) fill the theater when former Premier Guy, Mollet is shown defending his policy of keeping draftees in the army for 30 months instead of the legal term of 18 months. "When the lights go on at the end of the film, you sit there crushed, speechless, heartsick," wrote Critic Jean Planchais in Le Monde. "It is a film that makes you sick," concluded Henri de Turenne of L'Express. "Sick at heart. Sick to the stomach...