Word: die
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...Vietnam and returned with a chestful of medals and enough firsthand disillusionment to lead 5,500 vets in a 1971 antiwar march. Testifying before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, Kerry caught much of the country's mood: "How do you ask a man to be the last man to die for a mistake...
...founding members of THE FIRST WIVES CLUB: What made masses of women ages 25 and older defy long-established patterns by rushing to buy opening-weekend tickets like a crazed herd of young male action-movie fans stampeding to the 16th Die Hard sequel...
...Hollywood was also attentive, as The First Wives Club is, to a brutal supposition in popular psychology: men tend to homicide, women to suicide. In the traditional view, this is the only heroic violence suitable for a lady--to die with dignity. In the 1932 Three on a Match, society wife Ann Dvorak leaves her loving husband for a small-time gambler, neglects her child and, realizing the error of her ways, kills herself. Best friend Joan Blondell marries the husband, and Bette Davis moves in as nanny. The 1937 Stage Door has an array of dazzlers (including Hepburn...
...GOOD DAY TO DIE...
Nevertheless, some observations should be made. DeLima's roles in Harvard opera have always been the grandes dames -- the Countess in "Marriage of Figaro," and in "Die Fledermaus" as well. That is to say, she has a solid operatic voice, better for power than for subtlety. (Even in this nightclub act, she wore a high-waisted Empire dress of the type made famous by Emma Thompson and Gwyneth Paltrow, an inappropriate but curiously telling choice, as if to declare that she's better suited for more aristocratic pursuits...