Word: tragic
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Thus begins the Orson Welles version of Othello, with the joint funeral of the Moor and Desdemona, and the imaginative execution of Iago. The entire film is prefigured by this non-Shakespearean opening sequence: the sense of evil leading to tragic death, the theme of innocent beauty wronged, the symbolic imprisonment of man in a cage of passion...
...other hand, William Docken as her lover Hans was overly boyish in a part Giraudoux wrote to embody the tragic predicament of man. He didn't seem to realize why he loved Ondine and only at the very end of the evening, when he dies did he grasp the nature of his problem. Mr. Docken's limited supply of gestures proved to be a formidable handicap...
...city of Dallas paved the way for the tragic event here. Being a lifetime Dallasite, I am so ashamed...
...When the tragic news broke, the Times Herald was as ready as a newspaper can be. Seconds after the bullets struck, Carter caught an ominous message on the police receiver and called his paper at once. Some "trouble" had occurred on the presidential motorcade, he said, and he asked the paper to stand by. Only minutes later, Carter called again: the President had been shot. Within 20 minutes the Times Herald knew that Kennedy was at Parkland Hospital, and within 30 minutes it knew that he was dead...
Sometimes farcical, and sometimes weighted with tragic irony, these stories show man forever recoiling from the world into his cramped visions of self. Landolfi himself seems to be a master of the art. A resident of San Remo, he lives in seclusion with his wife and two daughters, appears in public only to gamble at the tables at the local casino. Characteristically, he has authorized only one photograph for publication-a head shot, with his outspread hand masking his face. At 55, he is highly Prized in Italian literary circles but almost unknown to the general public. Perhaps the most...