Word: tragic
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...disemboweled him and slit his throat. That grisly incident may be pure propaganda. But there is little doubt that the offensive it was intended to justify-an undeclared war on the mostly peaceful, independent Indians who only recently were among the Sandinistas' friends-marks a new, brutal and tragic phase in Nicaragua's revolution. -By Russ Hoyle
This sentiment is shared by an increasingly large percentage of the American people, who have too recently lived through the agony of adventurous and tragic American foreign policy in Iran. When the Central American Solidarity Association (CASA) called a February 13 emergency demonstration in Boston against increases in military aid over 3000 people responded despite had weather and short notice Similar actions have occurred all over the country. That the Reagan Administration has misjudged the tolerance of the American people for murder and carriage in the name of anti Communism is clear...
Fifteen appeared to be the magic--or tragic--number last week, as University officials announced percentage tuition hikes of that amount at the College and six Harvard graduate schools...
...tragic impulses of any President," insists Clark Clifford, a Washington insider for 40 years, "is the desire for vindication." There are in history a few examples of Presidents standing in splendor on their ideology and being vindicated finally by events. Lyndon Johnson's fight for a civil rights bill in 1964 was a sometimes lonely road to glory. But our system is not an ideological one. It is based on flexibility, compromise. Clifford recalls Johnson as he sealed his fate in the sweltering officers' club of Cam Ranh Bay in Viet Nam, urging his field commanders to "come...
...Dino de Laurentiis King Kong, that she read Farmer's autobiography, Will There Really Be a Morning? In vain she tried to persuade Bob Rafelson or Bob Fosse to direct it. (Rafelson would hire Lange for The Postman; Fosse is now preparing a film based on the tragic life of a modern starlet, Dorothy Straiten, with Mariel Hemingway in the lead.) In the interim came Shadowland, William Arnold's incorrigibly readable Farmer biography. The Frances screenwriters claim their script is based on original research, so Arnold has sued and awaits a showdown at the film's completion...