Word: tragic
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Under ordinary Lebanese circumstances, such lapses would border on the criminally negligent. Yet the car-attack was not the first, but the third such strike against American installations in Beirut--following the unforgottably tragic destruction of the U.S. embassy 17 months ago and the more recent Marine compound bombing which killed 241 Americans...
...dead, more than 100 injured and as many as 207,000 homeless. After a week of frantic digging through the rubble by troops and rescue workers, 45 people are still missing and feared dead. Material losses are estimated to be $48 million. The timing of the storm was a tragic coincidence for South Koreans: it began on Sept. 1, the first anniversary of the downing of Korean Air Lines Flight 007 by a Soviet jet fighter over Sakhalin Island...
...previous challenges-turning the Love Generation Hair into a Viet Nam elegy and compressing the epic misanthropy of E.L. Doctorow's novel Ragtime-the director has come to some sensitive compromises with narrative reality. Mozart sings the music of God, Salieri schemes and screams in tragic register, and the film keeps humming merrily along with them both...
...smirking repose-until, one day, he scans some scribbled Mozart sheet music, and tears of astonishment and fury course down his cheeks. Says Abraham, who has played in everything from Shakespeare to Scarface to a leotarded leaf in the Fruit of the Loom TV spots: "Salieri is a figure tragic in Greek proportions because he enters into a competition with God." Forman says he chose these two off Broadway journeymen over stars, or over actors who had performed in the play, because "I wanted to believe that this person is Mozart, is Salieri, not just an actor playing a part...
...making the price of power much too high in this society. I worry that we are making the conditions of public life so tough that nobody except people really obsessed with power will be willing finally to pay that price. That would be tragic from the point of view of public wellbeing. I think that is what is happening to Geraldine Ferraro...