Word: poignantly
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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Wading into crowds, the Soviet President proved himself a master of street theater, improvising historical, philosophical and legalistic arguments as he pressed his appeal to Lithuanians to step back from their threatened breach with Moscow. When his entreaties met with smiles and shouts of "Bravo, Gorbachev!" he answered with poignant appeals. "My personal fate is linked to this choice," he reminded the crowds. When he read resistance in the faces of his listeners, he fumed and lectured, employing the Socratic method to grill his audience...
...Last Emperor (1987). And, arguably, the last movie epic, for its hero is the prisoner of world events, not the shaper. With sumptuous visual intelligence, director Bernardo Bertolucci created a poignant tale about the last Emperor of China -- the poorest little rich boy in the world...
Broadway Bound (1986). Jokemeister Neil Simon became a poignant and self- critical artist in a trilogy of which this final installment, the tale of his start in show business, was the darkest, most honest and best. The scene / of Simon dancing in the living room with his mother, encouraging her to recall the one glorious moment of a mostly lousy life, lingers and lingers...
...Accidental Tourist by Anne Tyler (1985). The 1980s finally gave Tyler the broad readership her talents deserve. Her tenth novel is a poignant portrait of a travel writer who caters to people who hate to travel. Behind this whimsical premise lies a tragedy (the death of a child) that is never played for easy irony or pathos...