Word: tragic
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...gifted convicted killer, Edgar Smith, and helped set him at liberty to attempt murder again. Years later, Buckley acknowledged in an article how easily conned and naive he had been. Mailer, whose writings attest to his fascination with outlaws, has made only one comment on the Abbott affair: "A tragic situation all around...
...scope of his vision and the resonance of his images deepened steadily; those phalanxes of knobby knees and boots like Uccello horseshoes, those bloodshot cyclopean eyes and gut piles of pink carcasses acquired, despite their comic-strip mannerisms of drawing, a degree of pessimism that verged on the tragic. Guston's Head and Bottle, 1975, with its profile of a face (a self-portrait?) violently compressed into an eye and a chin prickled with a bum's gray stubble, is absurd in a sense; but the conviction with which Guston carries it off is worrisome and angry, full...
...World Affairs Council, Assistant Secretary of State Thomas Enders declared that the U.S. favors a negotiated settlement, international mediation and political solutions to the civil war in El Salvador. Enders condemned violence by the right as well as the left, which he said were "inextricably linked" in a tragic cycle. True enough, the U.S. has consistently favored a democratic solution to El Salvador's problems, involving free elections. But conspicuously missing from Enders' speech was any mention of "a well-orchestrated international Communist campaign to transform the Salvadoran crisis into an increasingly internationalized confrontation" between...
...dropping one by one to the ground, doubled over in the agony of death. Men lifting a feather-light ballerina and unexpectedly groaning under the strain. A trio dancing to a mournful Sardinian folk song in the eerie darkness of an eclipsed moon. These are some of the images-tragic, comic, passionate-from the rich choreographic imagination of Jiri Kylian, a poet of many moods who works with movement instead of words...
...winter of 1872-73, the Roosevelts appeared to be living one inspired moment after another. A friend observed that they constituted "a family so rarely gifted as to seem ... touched by the flame of the 'divine fire.' " But, as David McCullough's family portrait reveals, tragic cracks flawed all the Roosevelts, particularly the man who was, as if by mutual choice, the family's crown prince...