The recent protests have created, for the first time, an opportunity to move from melancholia to mourning, to face the losses and start counting the gains from the war.
Mourning first faced Yao in the 2000 Olympics in Sydney, Australia, but he expects to see a more polished version when the Nets play the Houston Rockets on Tuesday night at Continental Arena.
(Believing that Grandma has died, Mommy says, "Well! Our long night is over. We must put away our tears, take off our mourning... and face the future. It's our duty").
On Sunday afternoon in Miami, the Knicks will face Mourning for the first time since he returned from a kidney ailment on March 27.
Beyond all differences of race or creed, we are one country, mourning together and facing danger together.
Pale and unsmiling, his black hair framing his white face like mourning crepe, he has always suggested Laurence Olivier's Richard III, an ominous thought with children in the vicinity.
Elizabeth is two months a widow; but more to the point, she won't stop mourning, even in the face of her family's financial ruin.
WEST, Texas — A volunteer paramedic who became a public face of mourning after last month's deadly blast at a fertilizer plant in this Central Texas town denied having any involvement in the explosion, his lawyer said on Saturday.
"Some have painted over the name on the cleaner and wiped the smile off its little red face," mourned an Irish official to the Sun back then, stoically repressing tears.
Not that they're domineering: all kissed mouths, faces wan with mourning, hands delicately dropping flowers, bodies supine.
But while unionists might face a period of mourning if Scotland goes independent, a "Yes" vote could be an enormous boost for nationalism.
