Word: sadnesses
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Making The Last Picture Show from Larry McMurtry's novel--we co-wrote the screenplay--was a challenge, because the book had no real story line. But something drew me to this tale of a declining small town, the badly parented teenagers and the sad, unfulfilled adults. Polly (production designer) and I and the cast assembled in Texas to shoot. Before I myself realized that it was happening, my wife accused me of falling in love with 20-year-old actress Cybill Shepherd. Polly was right. As I was swept into an affair with Cybill, my mother called to tell...
...bags became so numerous. As she accumulated possessions over the summer, the passengers and drivers became less willing to assist her, and by August I rode bus after bus that passed her by as she stood waiting on the side of the road. I therefore have observed firsthand her sad deterioration over the past months, and it is clear to me that this person suffers from a psychological disorder that has gripped her life and distorted her perceptions of reality...
...some it's a sad shift away from what has been a product made only by Old World artisans. Yet the changes are all but inevitable, as technology compensates for a dwindling supply of qualified craftsmen. "It's an inescapable truth that machines can ultimately step in and do most jobs as well as, if not better than, humans," says Hetherington. There's no denying that for utter precision and consistency, nothing beats a 125-ton computer-driven swaging machine hammering down on a barrel 1,600 times a minute. What is unknown is whether knowledgeable collectors--seeking uniqueness...
...World Congress of Accountants had everything you could want in a world congress of accountants, except for two words: Arth ... Ander ... In his closing speech, Ricol finally mentioned the Firm That Dare Not Speak Its Name, Arthur Andersen. "It is so sad what happened," he said. "It's so sad, we are not speaking about Andersen." Enron's ex-employees might feel differently, but I could hardly keep from tearing up. Or falling asleep...
...Their solitude, however, has been disturbed by human encroachment as the land around Bori Budruk?a lush succession of green canyons known as the Western Ghats that stretches from Bombay to Kerala?has followed the sad but familiar tale of modern development. In the last decade man drowned many of the forests behind vast new dams, cut down what timber remained and hunted to extinction the wild deer, boar and sheep that are the leopards' preferred prey. In the time it took to fill a reservoir, the leopards of the Ghats found themselves in the open, homeless and hungry...