Word: tragic
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...they shot at us deliberately." Peres expressed his condolences but said the CBS crew had taken positions "in the midst of a group of armed men who were engaged in active hostility" against Israeli troops. He rejected any suggestion that the incident "was anything but a derivative of the tragic situation in Lebanon...
Georgia Bird, a calico woman, has managed to raise five sons and a daughter, as her famous boy explains, "cooking in restaurants and such," having been something of a kitchen legend herself. Her husband Joe had a tragic thirst and killed himself in 1975 about a year after their divorce. From a dwarf named Shorty, the late proprietor of Shorty's pool hall, the boys first learned that their father had been a terrific basketball player and might have gone places had he not left school around the eighth grade to begin a life of work. Relating this memory, Larry...
...away at the mythical New Negro. At the height of the civil rights movement, Sarah is in a lush girl's prep school. Her best friend, a white girl, asks her: "Don't you think it's rather romantic to be a Negro?...My father says Negroes are the tragic figures of America. Isn't it exciting to be a tragic figure? It's a kind of destiny!" In Ralph Ellison's Invisible Man, 30 years earlier, a white philanthropist said almost the same thing...
Scratch almost any great 17th century painter except Poussin, and traces of Caravaggio will appear. The vivid, tragic piety of his work after 1600 was fundamental to baroque painting. Without his sense of humble, ordinary bodies lapped in darkness but transfigured by sacramental light, what would Rembrandt have done? Caravaggio was one of the hinges of art history: there was art before him and art after him, and they were not the same. No wonder that he is now the artist that many new painters, in an age without authentic culture heroes, pine...
...youth was suddenly thrown from the rocket car. Through Disney's negligence, argued Millstone, Higgins is a paraplegic. Twenty-four hundred miles away in Florida, in another Orange County courtroom, an equally sad story was unfolding. While Marietta and Harry Goode listened closely, Lawyer Philip Freidin recounted a tragic 1977 family outing to Disney World during which the couple's four-year-old son slipped away and drowned in the moat in front of Cinderella Castle. The amusement park, charged Freidin, had failed to guard the waterway properly...