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Gene Wilder (star AND co-writer) tries hard at it all: he plays a romantic lead (with his looks!! and his age!! he and Woody Allen should start a club for clueless, mirrorless ageing comedians), and he tries to be moving and funny and poignant and smart, and tries to sing and dance, and succeeds in NONE!!

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A very poignant example of how our attention ends up getting utilized.

The notion that the prenatal transmission of PTSD risk is adaptive is still speculative, but I find it rather poignant.

And it's a very powerful and poignant reminder of how the beauty of music has the ability to speak where words fail, in this case literally speak.

And this is a particularly poignant quote because Schumann himself suffered from schizophrenia and died in asylum.

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