Word: tragic
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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America is a country that endlessly reinvents itself, working the alchemy that turns "them" into "us." That is the American secret: motion, new combinations, absorption. The process is wasteful, dangerous, messy, sometimes tragic. It is also inspiring. The story, in its ideal, is one of earthly redemption...
...hostage crisis. After the killings, security was tightened, including some searches of attache cases. Still, unsettled officials admitted that lapses can always occur. Said one: "We have to function. Are we going to search 10,000 people a day? I don't think you can ensure that a tragic incident like this will never happen...
...businessmen, his figures had begun to embody an immense plastic power. Sometimes these creatures, knotted in contrapposto, seem desperately mannered; but there are other moments when the smearing and knotting of flesh, not so much depicted as reconstituted in the fatty whorls and runs of paint, take on a tragic density closer to Michelangelo than to modernism. Among those artists who, in the past century, have tried to represent the inwardness of the body, Bacon holds a high place, along with Schiele, Kokoschka and Giacometti. He breaks the chain of pessimistic expectation by taking his prototypes beyond themselves into grandeur...
...could not change the tragic habits...
...Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher announced her own plans to curb soccer violence. She said she will introduce legislation to outlaw the sale or possession of alcohol in soccer stadiums and on trains and buses that carry fans to games. In Liverpool last week police were examining videotapes of the tragic Brussels game to identify rioters who may face extradition to Belgium. A Liverpool delegation will also visit Turin next week in an attempt at reconciliation with a city where anti-British feeling has been intense in recent days...