Word: poignant
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...result is a timely, poignant film that cannot be shown in Russia; the Moscow delegates to the Cannes Film Festival in April protested that it was unfriendly to them. Yet it represents the Russian member (Yoseph Yadin) of the jeep patrol as a man no less fundamentally decent than the other three, implies strongly that the West's quarrel is not with the Russian people but with their rulers. Indeed, because the Russian M.P. is the creature of an inflexible system, he feels an inner conflict that makes him the most striking of the four and, in a sense...
...opening Bach Sonata certainly cannot be considered among that composer's greatest works. Aside from the poignant Adagio, it's all pretty dull. There is none of the depth and vitality for which Bach's keyboard works are so noted, and the piece did not project very well via the medium of two grand pianos...
...ordinary photograph of a wonderful man and a real leader, Paul Douglas, on your cover! . . . I think that your covers are excellent and that their backgrounds always have pointed and poignant significance. But, on the other hand, the plain photograph calls special attention to the man who is our only logical choice for the next President...
...without boring the audience. But as soon as the camera moves out of the room in which most of "The Glass Menagerie" takes, place, it lets the characters out and one can't feel quite as sorry for them as one did in the play. One of the most poignant episodes in the stage production, for instance, was a monologue in which Amanda Wingfield, a demolished southern belle, recalls her past. It was poignant because the belle was so far from her romantic youth. The picture, however, in order to avoid focusing on one face for several minutes, adds...
...Faulkner's blazing skill and lazy improvisations, his rich humor and corny folksiness, his deep sense of tragedy and tasteless gothic excesses are all brought together. About half a dozen stories are as good bits of fiction as have ever been written in the U.S.: Barn Burning, a poignant sketch of a boy's anguished love for his arsonist-father; A Rose for Emily, that hair-raising classic of a lady's decline to necrophilia; Wash, a magnificent portrait of a poor white who, after years of loyalty, rebels against his landlord; Dry September, a lynching story...