Word: tragic
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Something in the painful irony of the team captain getting up and leading a pep rally moments after he has found out his girlfriend is pregnant strikes us as tragic. Yet it is precisely this piercing blend of pain and pity that gives the movie its real substance. Time after time we see this combination when Stefan's brother plans to go out and "get shitfaced" to forget his unemployment woes, and again when the coach eggs on his players by telling them "We re nothing more to them [the other team] than Dagos, Polacks, and Spicks." Undoubtedly, the movie...
...week went on, the wounded spoke about the tragic night, about miraculous escapes and comrades suddenly gone. Although the Marines appeared alert and energetic, their shaking hands betrayed their emotions. Lance Corporal Mike Balcolm, 20, of Vernon, N.Y., was lying awake on his bed on the fourth floor when the bomb went off. He blacked out; when he revived, he found himself pinned under a jumble of concrete. After his cries for help went unheeded, he grabbed a wire and painfully pulled himself through a crack in the rubble. While Balcolm was being treated at a makeshift hospital, however...
Those costs will certainly be high, far higher than the tragic loss of life alone. By invading Grenada, the U.S. risks tarnishing the high moral standard, based on respect for national sovereignty and self-determination, that distinguishes its conduct in the world from that of its Soviet adversary. Indeed, cries of outrage rang forth from Latin America, Western Europe and even the chambers of Congress-not to mention the predictable howl from Moscow, where TASS called Reagan "a modern Napoleon," devoid of conscience and simpleminded. By embroiling itself more deeply in the turbulent situation in Lebanon, the U.S. risks becoming...
...from consolidating its power beyond Beirut, there seemed to be no mission for the troops except as a symbolic presence. George Ball, who was Under Secretary of State under Kennedy and Johnson, expresses the dilemma that such a situation creates: "God knows we might have learned from our tragic Viet Nam fiasco that, as a great power, we should deploy our troops only where they are vitally needed and it is clear they can be effectively used ... [otherwise] their bitter plight will exhibit not America's strength but its impotence...
...Tragic Sign-Off for a Golden Girl