Word: tragic
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Initiated by Idaho Democrat Frank Church and signed by 14 Democrats and two Republicans,* the statement warned that with the conflict entering a "critical juncture, it would be tragic indeed if there were any misconception in Hanoi about the realities of the political situation in the U.S." Entitled "A Plea for Realism," the document noted that "there are no doubt many citizens of the U.S. who share our expressed misgivings about the growing American involvement in Viet Nam. But there are many more who either give their full endorsement to our Government's policy in Viet...
...East has undergone so many Arab-Israeli alarums since Israel became a state 19 years ago that even the antagonists often find it difficult to take one another seriously. They huff and they puff, they bluster and threaten, they move troops around like toy soldiers, but-with the single tragic exception of the war over Suez in 1956 -their bravado has rarely amounted to more than local skirmishes. Last week the area once more seemed on the brink of disaster-and this time the huffing and puffing was more serious. In the closest that Israel and the Arab countries have...
...chemical transformation and becomes hideous Monsieur Opale, a sadistic savage who cannot resist kicking the crutches out from under a cripple, or wrenching the baby from any passing mother. Predictably, Opale's appearances become progressively vicious during the first two-thirds of the film; but a flashback reveals the tragic truth of Cordelier's folly; when he first became M. Opale, he felt liberated, physically light as air, uninhibited for the first time. Barrault, a brilliant mimist (Les Enfants du Paradis) plays Opale-Hyde as if he were doing a Chaplin imitation. Only in successive transformations does Opale become dangerously...
Wars are littered with figures: troops employed, dead and wounded, planes shot down, trucks shot up. But the most important figures, and often the most tragic, are not limited to the forces of combat. In South Viet Nam, no other statistic speaks with more forlorn eloquence than this: out of every eight civilians, one is now a refugee...
...performances emphasized, Bruhn and Nureyev are not really comparable. Bruhn, a mature 38, has polished his classical style to a peak of powerful precision and expressive economy. In the U.S. premiere of his pas de deux for Romeo and Juliet, he evoked muted strains of Romeo's tragic ardor, but the focus was less on his characterization than on the discipline of his whippet leaps and turns and the flawless flow of his carries with Italy's graceful Carla Fracci. Marveled Nureyev: "His technique is too good to be believed...