Word: poignantly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...played by Law, Dickie oozes a reckless sensuality, turning the beam on and off at will, indulging Marge's love while he stealthily impregnates an Italian woman. In a movie that ups the sexual octane of the book, Tom's interest in Dickie is explicitly homoerotic, the yearning poignant and desperate. The killing in the boat is less murder than the fatal flailing of a rejected suitor. Tom is crushed by Dickie's dismissal, so he crushes Dickie...
Price's silly story about Jesus was just that, a story. What was "gospel" was Price's recounting of his inner vision and healing from cancer. This was powerful and poignant, as are all true insights about Jesus Christ. VIRGINIA LEE ADI Portola Valley, Calif...
...mouse named Mr. Jingles. The curious mouse, discovered on the floor of the Green Mile by the guards, becomes the pet of one of the inmates, Eduard Delacroix (Michael Jeter). The image of a convicted killer giggling uncontrollable over the antics of his pet mouse is a poignant one, and it remains as a symbolic notion that even a place as somber as the Green Mile is not totally devoid of innocence and laughter...
Emmet Ray (Sean Penn) is the premier American jazz guitarist. His fingers sculpt gorgeous sounds from the six strings; I'm Forever Blowing Bubbles was never so poignant or supple as in his hands. But Emmet is also a pimp, petty thief, paranoid...if there's a bad word that starts with p, he's likely to be it. Driven by ego, dogged by insecurity, he rationalizes his outrages as the spillage of an overflowing talent...
...true of Sylvia (the uncannily cool, wise and beautiful Rebekah Johnson), who is one of the token blacks in his newly integrated school. Their relationship is handled with great delicacy; this is a friendship that yearns to be, deserves to be, richer. But--and this may be the most poignant thing about Liberty Heights--these kids are ahead of a time that is still waiting to happen, a time when people will be sympathetically supported when they try to speak gently, lovingly across the color line...