Word: tragic
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...have long hoped for a conclusion to that conflict. The U.S. believes, along with many others in the region, that the territorial integrity and sovereignty of both nations should be maintained. We are in contact with others about how this tragic and costly war could soon be ended...
...movie is Camille, that transcendent Garbo weepie, which Daddy Warbucks takes his button-eyed orphan to see at a Radio City Music Hall advance screening. (Quite a bit in advance: Annie is set in 1933; Camille was released in 1937.) In an adroit 4½-minute condensation, the tragic story of Marguerite and Armand unfolds, brief and mesmerizingly beautiful. The clip also possesses an innocence, a sweetness of spirit, that this 1982 blockbuster never even tries to capture. For a production that means to bring children back to the movies, dragging their parents with them, Annie has a dark, dour...
Alex de Jonge-an Oxford professor of Russian ancestry-takes Grigorii Efimovich Rasputin's rise to power to be one of history's tragic jokes. The Tsarina thought Rasputin a saint because he could apparently heal her son; and because he was a saint, he must be heeded in all matters. The Tsar did not lag far behind in credulity...
...crime, declared Chief Prosecutor Roger Adelman in his opening statement to the jury of seven women and five men, was "a deliberate, planned, premeditated, indeed a calculated attack." In his presentation, Defense Attorney Vincent Fuller told the jury that "the basic underlying facts of the tragic events are not in dispute." The case for the defense: Hinckley was legally insane at the time of the shootings and could not understand or control his actions. Said Fuller: "The mentally ill, the insane, can calculate, can plan, can indeed premeditate some of the most bizarre kinds of activities...
...Iraqi forces. The assistance was supposedly intended to help ease Egypt back into the Arab fold, by which it has been ostracized since the Camp David agreement. But in spite of the losses incurred, neither side seems ready to make the concessions necessary to resolve the conflict. With the tragic end of Benyahia's mission last week, peace seemed as distant as ever...