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Word: poignant (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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ADALEN '31. Director Bo Widerberg (Elvira Madigan) paints a poignant portrait of people caught in the flux of history and conveys the ineffable quality of a single decisive moment in a man's life...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Best Sellers: Nov. 28, 1969 | 11/28/1969 | See Source »

...Myra Breckinridge, whom no man will ever possess. Clad only in garter belt and one dress shield, I held off the entire elite of the Trobriand Islanders, a race who possess no words for "why" or "because." I am the New Woman whose astonishing history is a poignant amalgam of vulgar dreams and knife-sharp realities. Soon, by an extreme gesture, I shall cease altogether to be human and become legend like Jesus, Buddha, Cybele...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: Myra/Raquel: The Predator of Hollywood | 11/28/1969 | See Source »

...Victorian times. With land prices above ?300 an acre, a man on wages has no hope of ever saving enough to buy a place of his own. The simple result is a drift away from the land to the factories, a drift, (unlike its U.S. counterpart) particularly poignant because, despite everything, nobody really wants...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: A World Well Lost | 11/28/1969 | See Source »

ADALEN '31. Director Bo Widerberg (Elvira Madigan) paints a poignant portrait of people caught in the flux of history and conveys the ineffable quality of a single decisive moment in a man's life...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television, Theater, Cinema, Books: Nov. 14, 1969 | 11/14/1969 | See Source »

ADALEN '31. Director Bo Widerberg (Elvira Madigan) paints a poignant portrait of people caught in the flux of history and conveys the ineffable quality of a single decisive moment in a man's life...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Nov. 7, 1969 | 11/7/1969 | See Source »

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