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Word: lovelorn (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...include a quirky contract killer seemingly borrowed from Elmore Leonard; and the underlying politics focuses as much on Pinochet's Chile as on the grievances of tribes whose ancestral graves are plundered for museum displays. But the deftly manipulated plot reunites Hillerman's detectives, Joe Leaphorn and Jim Chee, lovelorn men who bury grief in stubborn pursuit of moral order. Their tracking skills and non-Anglo reasoning still prove vital to averting further crime. In place of breathtaking evocations of light and landscape, Hillerman touchingly portrays the outdoorsmen's dislocation amid subways, crowds and unneighborly indifference...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Summer Reading | 6/19/1989 | See Source »

MISS FIRECRACKER. Holly Hunter reprises her stage role as a lovelorn orphan determined to win a beauty contest. Mary Steenburgen and Alfre Woodard also shine in Beth Henley's comedy about the danger of holding on to youthful dreams and the liberating effect of letting them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Critics' Choice: May 22, 1989 | 5/22/1989 | See Source »

MISS FIRECRACKER. Holly Hunter reprises her stage role as a lovelorn orphan determined to win a beauty contest. Mary Steenburgen and Alfre Woodard also shine in Beth Henley's comedy about the danger of holding on to youthful dreams and the liberating effect of letting them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Critics' Choice: May 8, 1989 | 5/8/1989 | See Source »

...THAT SHOT ITS OWNER. All voice serious concern that unimaginative headlines -- GIRL, 11, BECOMES GRANDMOTHER -- are replacing zany eye-catchers -- CHRISTOPHER COLUMBUS USED MAP PREPARED BY SPACE ALIENS -- that reflect the best work of twisted minds. Ex-Fleet Streeter Sheila O'Donovan, known to Examiner readers as Lovelorn Columnist Sheela Wood, praises what she considers America's restrained tabloid sensibility. She quit a Hong Kong tabloid in protest after the editors put a large blob on the front page with the headline 20 CARS CRUSH CRAWLING CRIPPLE...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In Florida: The Rogues of Tabloid Valley | 8/15/1988 | See Source »

Without Hedda on stage, these characters seem to sink into ridiculousness. The passionate pleas of Frost's lovelorn Lovborg seem almost schoolboyish. Judge Brack, played by Nestor Davidson, fares little better. As the insidiously corrupt Brack, Davidson plays up his character with a tad too much joviality. His tendency to toss lines off with Wildean abandon serves only to mar the gravity of his character...

Author: By Esther H. Won, | Title: Hedda Strong | 4/15/1988 | See Source »

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