Word: poignantly
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...Civil War (PBS). Even if it hadn't inspired a national craze, filmmaker Ken Burns' 11-plus-hour documentary series would rank as one of the medium's towering achievements -- a lucid, comprehensive and poignant narrative of the nation's great calamity...
From across the country come poignant stories of lifelong workers facing a hollow old age. Charles Thibodeau, 58, was laid off from the James River paper mill in Fitchburg, Mass., last spring -- just 3 1/2 years short of retirement. Although his children are grown, living on unemployment has required some belt tightening. "Not much you can do," he sighs. "Pay the bills. Taxes are going up, and we don't have much money coming in." It makes for a simpler life. "Once in a while we used to like to go out to a lounge and have a few dances...
...great gifts of body control, of withdrawing into character, of seeming to be. It's an awesome show that reveals more about De Niro than about the man he is playing. Like the Master Thespian on Saturday Night Live, he might be expected to snap out of his poignant lethargy and triumphantly shout, "Acting...
...Latin. The plagiarist snatches the writer's brainchildren, pieces of his soul. Plagiarism gives off a shabby metaphysic. Delaware's Senator Joseph Biden, during the 1988 presidential primaries, expanded the conceptual frontier by appropriating not just the language of British Labour Party leader Neil Kinnock but also of his poignant Welsh coal-mining ancestors. Biden transplanted the mythic forebears to northeastern Pennsylvania. He conjured them coming up out of the mines to play football. "They read poetry and wrote poetry and taught me how to sing verse." A fascinating avenue: the romantic plagiarist reinvented himself and his heritage entirely...
...Glory is an impressive, meticulously researched work of broadcast history as well as a piquant glimpse inside CBS's corporate culture. Especially poignant is Smith's description of the complex relationship between Paley and Frank Stanton, the longtime president and "conscience" of CBS, who was crushed when Paley cast him aside rather than accept him as successor. It was a pattern that would be repeated with one heir apparent after another. By the end of his reign, Smith says bluntly, Paley, well into his 80s, "had become an albatross for the network...