A suited and booted regular at Elaine's, Howard is bereft about his disappeared tortoise President Roosevelt, a slow, wandering thing whose plodding yet purposeful journey isn't all that dissimilar to Lucky's.
On the phone this week Ms. Winslet was bereft about the death of Mr. Garlock, whom she had known since she was 17. "It wasn't just holding our handbags while we posed for pictures," Ms. Winslet said.
It's indicative of the failings of the first half of the season that I had almost no memory of a female character who was bereft about a loved one who was among the zombies put to pasture.
Whether you are bereft or relieved about this beginning of the end, or a little bit of both, the "Idol" audition train has pulled into the station for the last time, a point the show brought home with a lights-out moment that was stagey, sure, but effective.
Telecommuters are bereft.
Plays are bereft of relevance.
Both are bereft of opposition voices.
America's friends are bereft, confused, paralyzed.
The parishioners are bereft at Callahan's.
