Word: sorrowful
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Certainly, there was tension in the air--everybody's future was at stake. Those "number-one" shrieks were matched in intensity only by the tacit sorrow of their unlucky counterparts...
...with a razor, a symbolic execution. The murdered man was sleeping with the killer's wife, who had left her husband and taken the children. In divorce court, where she denied her adultery, she was awarded all her husband's money, leaving him with nothing but sorrow and rage. All night he hid out near the barn, and when his best friend came to do the milking, he shot him point-blank. Then he weighted himself down, waded into the river and put a bullet in his head. The ear was never recovered...
...there is no rest for the weary. Harvard will host a tri-meet with Columbia and UMass-Lowell at noon tomorrow. So whether they are riding a wave of elation or sorrow following the Cornell meet, the wrestlers will have little time to re-focus...
...STORY OF LOVE AND PRIDE, OF SORROW and tragedy, and it is being performed by the Boston Ballet now through Feb. 16 at the Wang Center. The ballet Onegin, choreographed by John Cranko in 1965, is based on the 19th century poem Eugene Onegin by the great Russian poet Alexander Pushkin, and set to music by Tchaikovsky. Pushkin's poem recounts the tragic love story of an innocent young woman, Tatiana, and the brooding Russian nobleman, Eugene Onegin, who breaks her heart. From the opening scene in the Russian countryside to the final denouement in Tatiana's bedroom, Cranko...
...demonstrates her devotion to her husband as they dance before their guests. The now gray-haired Onegin returns from his wanderings only to find that the Prince's wife was once the young girl whose love he rejected. Berdo exhibits a deep understanding of Onegin's regret and sorrow in his portrayal of the character's painful moment of discovery. In the final scene, Tatiana is in her room reading a love letter from Onegin. He comes to see her, and once again they are swept up into a passionate pas de deux: clearly, Tatiana's feelings for Onegin were...