Word: tragic
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...probe with High in America is that it has the depth and style of a magazine article and is, in a sense, a feature piece on Stroup. Anderson portrays Stroup as the classical tragic hero, and some of the biographical information could have been deleted in favor of more relevant facts. Instead, we know more than we care to about Stroup, his desperado rep in dull old Washington, the deluge of drugs pushed on him by grateful constituents, the beautiful people of the counter-culture that he hung with, and his gigantic ego that would lead to his downfall. Anderson...
...mild intoxicant that every serious study has pronounced less harmful than beer. It is difficult to imagine how we, or indeed our worst enemies could have developed a more wrong-headed policy...Our marijuana policy has become a domestic Vietnam, a national disgrace. If it weren't so tragic, it would be hilarious...
...Vegas suffers yet another tragic high-rise conflagration
Newman's at his very worst, though, when the film comes to its tragic, anti-climactic ending, wherein fate's final cruel blow devastates Murphy. Newman staggers, he pounds on furniture, his face scrunches up and turns red--he's in pain. He's trying hard, but he just can't do it, Newman can't cry on camera. He finally turns his back to the camera, bangs his head against the wall and fakes some pathetic sobs...
...tragic fate of the Russian avantgarde: the group of artists and artisans known as the constructivists wanted to change their country through art and design, creating not just a style but a new "rational" man. All the conditions in which art can be politically effective-illiteracy, no mass media, belief in icons and so forth-were there in Russia; and yet the efforts of this supremely gifted nucleus of artists was snuffed out, by 1930, by Stalin...