Word: sadnesses
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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There may be some truth in all this, but these triangular banalities no more explain the dancer's sad fate than they illuminate his genius. His troubles with what would now be called "relationships" are the symptoms rather than the causes of his collapse. Some people will be titillated by the openness with which homosexual love is portrayed in the film. But this is mostly a slow, cautious biography, elegantly attentive to Edwardian decor and dress. It slights Nijinsky's melodramatic story and, finally, offends with its relentless reductionism. There are times when excesses of good taste become...
...former Chief Executive to show "there is broad support for a Ford presidency." If such backing materialized, Ford admitted, "I'd have a hard time saying no." He believes that his moderate views make him, and not Reagan, "the most electable Republican," and he reasons that the sad state of the economy gives him what could prove a decisive edge over Carter...
...started this work sad and outraged by the way people's lives are destroyed by dehumanizing work, by the waste of human life, and the anger and bitterness that such work develops. Also, from the social scientists' point of view, unless we change work there is no point in talking about changing other institutions...
...foolish, even sad, to savor the victory as an act of geopolitical symbolism, Americans nonetheless had a right to be proud of their boys. A pond-hockey pickup crew of collegians, they had knocked off an athletic machine assembled from the best that the Soviet army and the Moscow Dynamo could produce-the best team in the world, professional or amateur. Basically the same Soviet outfit trounced the National Hockey League All-Stars at Madison Square Garden last year. The Soviets have won the title in every Olympics since 1964; the Americans last took the gold 20 years...
...most of the Jewish settlements in the West Bank and Gaza have been located in rural areas or on the outskirts of Arab population centers; the Hebron decision understandably inflamed the Palestinian Arabs. Referring to Israel's settlements policy, Egyptian President Anwar Sadat said that he was "sad but optimistic" and expressed the hope that the Israeli government would "drop all these difficulties they are putting on the road to peace." But Cairo's influential daily al Ahram has sharply criticized Israel's Ambassador-designate Eliahu Ben-Elissar, who is due to arrive in Cairo this week...