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Among the poignant details from the war: In Albania, Kalashnikov rifles are hidden in watermelons; and in Kosovo, KLA guerillas are so poor they have to eat toothpaste.
Inside there are attenuated sculptures of wide-eyed damsels, poignant religious icons, and “ordinary people,” stooped and tragic, bearing the whole weight of Hungary’s 20th-century misfortunes.
Near the end, having brought out in a scene you've described that no amount of money will ever be enough for Clark, Lewis concludes with a poignant but still opaque image that "the best and most lasting motive for wanting to change the way things are is to be unhappy with the way things are.
Images of him with his tailored arms across the shoulders of other leaders seem reflections of genuine impulse, all the more poignant in the context of sober modern dress.
He asked a poignant question: “Does surgical research have a future?”