Word: tragic
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...prospect of destruction." Pipe's contention is nowhere supported by evidence from the post-World War II Soviet Union, and in fact contradicts both common sense and the lessons of contemporary Soviet history. The Second World War left the Soviet Union with a profound sense of war's tragic consequences. Virtually every Soviet family suffered a loss during the war, and every Soviet city today maintains a prominent memorial to those millions who lost their lives between 1941-1945. The war has indeed marked the Soviet conscience very deeply, but not at all in the perverse and inhumane manner that...
...epic that has everything. The saga cries out for one: the mining baron who provided the wealth; the son who created the papers and made a fool of himself in print for years; the five overshadowed sons and their spasmodic attempts to claim their heritage; the splashy comic-tragic climax of Patty spitting a debased radicalism in the family's face. They move from "Pop", as William Randolph Hearst is still called by his son, to pop radicalism, bank jobs, and Tommy guns in 50 years. Such a book would be one of the great melodramas of the American imagination...
...Robert Oppenheimer, known to most as the Father of the Atomic Bomb, lived a life as mysterious and tragic as the hellish radioactive beast that he sired. Attempting to do what Oppenheimer himself did so well, director Jon Else has taken it upon himself to shed some light on both the man and his creation. The Day After Trinity succeeds in penetrating much of the mystery that has so long surrounded the Los Alamos project and the slightly built scientist who coordinated it. Relying on candid interviews with Oppenheimer's Los Alamos colleagues, as well as rare footage...
...decision, as a friend said, "almost killed" Oppenheimer. But despite Oppenheimer's tragic fate. Else refrains from blaming Teller or any government officials. Using a sequence of pictures taken shortly before Oppenheimer's death in 1967. Else simply shows the process by which Oppenheimer withered away. The sequence proves more powerful than any battery of accusations could ever...
...Ater the tragic MGM Grand Hotel fire in Las Vegas last November, rescue workers were faced with a daunting task: how to keep track of the 4,500 guests and employees at the disaster scene. Nervous relatives and friends quickly overwhelmed the police department with calls seeking information about missing people. Executives of Commodore International Ltd., who were attending a convention in the city, moved seven of their small PET machines into disaster headquarters at the Las Vegas Convention Center. Commodore personnel programmed the computers to list names and rooms of the people staying at the hotel and drew...