Word: poignantly
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...loves one of them, Gilliam responds, "I like her...I like women." He treats them as interchangeable sex objects. Gilliam's attitude is effectively conveyed by a well-directed scene in which alternate views of him in bed with each of the women are spliced together with hilarious and poignant results...
...symptoms and seemed to be recovering just before taking a fatal turn. But medical experts testified that the child would probably have been feverish, vomiting and in obvious pain before his death. Had he been taken to a doctor, they asserted, the boy would still be alive. In one poignant moment at the trial, David Twitchell sadly voiced his misgivings: "If medicine could have saved him, I wish I had turned...
...arrive (by elevator or escalator), a choir as big as a Nuremberg rally greets you. But if you are the prematurely dispatched hero of a film fantasy, you won't stay long. Some dignified gent -- Claude Rains or James Mason -- will serve as celestial flight attendant for a poignant return trip to earth, where you will perform the one deed that makes your life fulfilled and your death noble. A dead man always gets his last request in Hollywood heaven...
...Most poignant of all, however, is Robocop II's exaggerated portrayal of the desperate straits America's cities are rapidly approaching. The present spectres of crack, increasing urban violence and homelessness make Nuke and warlike futuristic Detroit very tangible images...
...suffering caused by AIDS is enormous. Sufferers deserve compassion, and their disease deserves scientific inquiry. But AIDS has got far more. AIDS has become the most privileged disease in America. Why? Mainly because its victims are young, in many cases creative and famous. Their deaths are therefore particularly poignant and public. And because one of the two groups that AIDS disproportionately affects (gay men) is highly organized. This combination of conspicuousness and constituency has allowed AIDS activists to get more research funding, more treatment money and looser drug-testing restrictions than any comparable disease...