Word: tragic
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...TRAGIC DEATH of Playboy's 1980 Playmate Dorothy Stratten (masterfully depicted by Bob Fosse in his latest movie Star 80) could easily become ammunition for moralists, anti-capitalists, and anti-porn feminists; for at first glance it offers an indictment of the sexual and economic exploitation of women in American society. This would be unfortunate, however, because the issues raised by her case add up to a social dilemma which is too complex to be solved by simplistic thinking...
...Stories of William Trevor will surely establish Trevor as one of the most masterful post-War practitioners of the genre. These 800 pages contain a formidable array of stories--stories which delve into the comic and tragic interiors of ordinary lives, revealing an extraordinary subtlety of observation and perception. No peripheral backwater of society no commonplace experience is too mundane to attract the sympathetic interest of this writer. Just as bleak, hollow cocoons of loneliness make up much of Philip Larkin's poetry, is unglamorous, unremarkable lives which are the raw materials of Trevor's prose. But far from being...
...latest conflict, therefore, threatens to throw Middle East settlement attempts even farther off course. More tragic still, is that this battle for control of the PLO is being waged in Lebanon, where death and violence are in no short supply. Long plagued by internal conflicts between Druse and Syrianbacked Christians, Lebanon has become a battleground for external disputes as well. It was the Israeli invasion of Lebanon last summer and subsequent partial withdrawal this year that touched off the latest round of Christian-Drund warfare. Now the Syriann that once supported Arafat are backing his opponents in Tripoli, even...
...best things director Bill Rauch has going for him is the choice of the play. The beauty of the language and imagery of Lorca's tragic poem about a childless woman in a rural village contributes substantially to the impact of the play. And the play does have impact; it is doubtful that anyone could walk out of it without some strong opinion...
...Fosse's recounting of a true story that has attracted much journalistic attention and has already been done as a TV movie (Death of a Centerfold) lie in the way he defeats one's conventional expectations of his material. Mariel Hemingway's Dorothy is not the tragic tart that custom usually dictates in works of this kind. In an arrestingly straightforward, naturalistic performance, Hemingway suggests neither portents of doom nor a sense that she is self-destructively abandoning herself to a media fairy tale from which the only possible awakening is a rude one. If her physical...