Word: deadness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...room, Gretta tells her husband Gabriel (Donal McCann) about this lost love, arousing an unworthy jealousy. She falls asleep, and he stares out the window, as the snow -- symbol of the universe's indifference to petty social preoccupations and petty emotions too -- falls "upon all the living and the dead." Nature, playing no favorites, blankets them all together...
...quite enough. With this graceful Dead, Huston served his source generously and himself handsomely, contriving what few in film have managed: a sublimely moving exit...
...Palestinian riots began in early December. But to the outside world, it was a distorted portrait of how the battlefield actually looked. As television footage and photographs have made clear, Gulliver has the gun. Last week six more Palestinians were killed, raising the toll to at least 23 dead and hundreds wounded...
...mourners are limited to one wordless gesture and one choked cry. Although the play appears to celebrate the tender bonds of family and community, the beauty of human connection is all but unseen: real self-awareness comes in monologue or in rueful exchanges among the shades of characters already dead. In the climax, a young woman who has died in childbirth revisits earth on the day of her twelfth birthday, only to find that her mother cannot "see" her. That is, not only is the mother unable to envision the ghost of her daughter's future self...
...which went down in 1912 with some 1,500 on board. The worst shipping calamity occurred during World War II, when a Soviet submarine torpedoed the Nazi transport Wilhelm Gustloff, killing an estimated 7,700. While more than 1,600 people, including eleven crewmen from the Victor, were presumed dead in last week's accident, the actual count was almost certainly higher. The names of as many as 1,000 children may not have been included on the ferry's manifest. Passengers who purchased tickets after boarding also may not have been listed in the roster. Some survivors claimed...