Word: heartbrokenly
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...best songs on Dylan's undervalued Street-Legal are heartbroken ballads, wounded, surly and defenseless by turns. Dylan delivers them in typically left-field fashion, backed by three women singers as he lets the songs rip like some Bleecker Street parody of a Vegas lounge lizard. In concert, with billowing shirt, plunging neckline and a crooner's microphone calisthenics, Dylan works his way through his standard repertory and sometimes looks as if he is auditioning for The Gong Show...
...brother, Despard, the current baronet. The arrival of Richard Dauntless (William Monnen), dashing sailor and lady-killer, precipitates a crisis. Dispatched to plead Robin's suit, he falls in love with Rose himself. Richard and Despard reveal Robin's identity just as he's about to marry Rose. The heartbroken maiden turns reluctantly to Richard; Despard is reunited with Margaret; the bewildered but enthusiastic chorus sings nuptial congratulations...
...critical purposes, let's assume that the play, at Broadway's Imperial Theater, is not totally autobiographical. When we meet the hero, a writer named George Schneider (Judd Hirsch), he is a heartbroken shell of a man who sleepwalks around his living room poring over letters of condolence. The leftovers in his refrigerator are reinventing penicillin. His brother Leo (Cliff Gorman), a kind of compassionate Sammy Glick, feels that the cure for George's depression is to fix him up with a date-in Leo's mind a euphemism for an easy...
...single man: the President of the Republic of Chile, Salvadore Allende, who was waiting for them in his office, with no other company but his great heart, surrounded by smoke and flames." Five days later the poet for whom Jean-Paul Sartre rejected the Nobel Prize in 1964 died heartbroken, having witnessed in his own country the same tragedy he had seen 35 years before in Spain...
...were so depressed and heartbroken after the game, that we did not have the energy to cancel the bands and the parties. In other words, we were forced, inspite of ourselves, to have a good time. If we were depressed, then those Harvards who stayed in Hanover did not mind sharing in our depravity in those baleful dens of debauchery (fraternity houses). In fact, the Harvards did a good job in beating us in this, our own perverse game...