Word: plighting
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...star-crossed lovers, the most well-known of which is the film version "Camille" with Greta Garbo. The story's adaptability to the opera stage, the ballet stage, and even the silver screen is remarkable, and perhaps is owed to the simplicity of the heroine's tragic plight. Called Violetta in Verdi's opera, she is a consumptive courtesan in the decadent world of mid-19th century Paris, older and more worldly than her counterpart Dumas' play...
...even this presumptuous slogan is not as inappropriate as the "Peculiar Institution" campaign. Last year, the Coalition leaders demonstrated both their insolence and their stupidity when they compared the "plight" of minority students at Harvard to the unspeakable horrors of slavery. To even mention the two in the same breath is to trivialize the experiences of the African-Americans who suffered and died under slavery...
...with all these opportunities to share the plight of the poverty-stricken, the caring and concerned seem irresistably drawn to Robert Kiely's commodious Bohemian hotel at the center of campus...
...self-aware in her dedication to the job. After masterfully folding a sweater, she declares, "People just don't realize what it takes. They just don't". Also, she salvages the potentially tired AIDS subplot in one of the funniest scenes in the movie, in which she discusses her plight in terms of the characters of Melrose Place...
...wanted to study the plight of women, and to see how the embargo affected them," she said...