Word: tragic
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...hero's welcome took a tragic turn as the crowd converged on the Palacio da Liberdade, where Neves would lie in state. As the pressure against the palace gates increased, the mass of mourners panicked, and in the ensuing stampede at least five people were crushed to death and more than 200 were injured. The confusion at Belo Horizonte was in contrast to the order that had marked the transition of power to the new President, Jose Sarney, who had been Neves' Vice President. Sarney, a personable, well-read politician, is viewed in political circles as a competent administrator...
...Pope and Johnson is entertaining, provocative reading. William King's amusing story of a licentious nobleman and a guileful beggar woman, "The Beggar Woman" and the anonymous "Art of Wenching" are both good fun. John Ellis' "Sarah Hazard's Love Letter," is a poignant verse based upon an actual tragic letter. In "The Rural Lass", Catherine Jemmat's story of a woman determined to marry despite her parents' disapproval, sheds some light on the pitifully subordinate plight of the eighteenth century women Edward Chicken's portrait of "The Collier's Wedding" is a somber depiction of a rural feast that...
...crew are apolitical, beer-guzzling men of integnily who destroy boats because they are told to destroy boats. They don't enjoy it, and are just as atraid of being killed as the people they are trying to kill. When I saw the film last year, the tragic ending left the audience silem. The film added a corollary to Sherman's famous "War is hell" -it should be changed to "War is hell for both sides...
Thompson's doesn't just bitch on this album, though. In the two slow songs, "Love In A Faithless Country" and "Ghosts In The Wind," he almost entirely dispenses with words, preferring to convey emotion by constructing dissonant, haunting atmospheres full of tragic and pathetic echoes. Thompson is one of the few guitarists in popular music who dares to use leaps of dissonance in his soloes: often you'll here bits of the blues, Celtic folk, heavy metal, and even classical stylings woven into the same song. Sometimes, in the overextended jam. "Country", for example, this variety can lack focus...
...movement built a massive vocabulary of rhetorical excess about "fascist Amerika." Officers lied in writing up citations for their men and themselves. The Viet Nam Memorial is, in a sense, the most purely true thing that can be said about the American war in Viet Nam. It has the tragic grace of the incontestably lost and therefore the incontestably true--the names of those who died in such a context of multiple illusions...