Word: tragic
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Then came another shocker, one of far greater significance. At 2:27 a.m. on Sunday, Reagan was awakened with the tragic news of the bombing of American and French military quarters in Beirut. The casualties jolted him. He knew he had to get back to Washington...
...little shorter than the other." That remark has been amplified by Phyllis Rose in her lively study of five 19th century couples. The title, Parallel Lives, has two meanings: the disparate views of marriage held by husband and wife, and the juxtaposition of twittering romantic expectations and tragic neuroses. Reading Rose's work is like turning a valentine to find graffiti underneath: not a pleasant experience, but a compelling one. The couples could not have been better chosen. Each contains one famous waiter: John Ruskin, Thomas Carlyle, John Stuart Mill, Charles Dickens and George Eliot, nee Marian Evans. Three...
...power, ineffectual. In David Storey's Home (1970), John Osborne's West of Suez (1971) and Harold Pinter's No Man's Land (1975) and in the films The Heiress (1950) and Long Day's Journey into Night (1962), Richardson found his ideal role: as the haughty burgher whose tragic flaw lies in realizing too late that he is not quite a tragic figure. Though he never played Lear, the Shakespearean role that might have been written for him, Richardson found that doddering majesty as the politician in Storey's Early Days (1980). Wily but too innocent, flirting with senility...
...LIGHT OF YESTERDAY'S tragic loss of 147 American lives, feelings of sadness, anger, and frustration are appropriate. What we must add to that list, however, is regret--regret that the Marines were in Lebanon in the first place, and regret that so many young men had to die before we realized the extent of our vulnerability. The time has come for President Reagan to call home the Marines...
...good deal of the play's success hinges upon Henley's ability to subtly intertwine comedy with serious and problematical issues. Although the play revolves to a great extent around a present and history of tragic events--suicide, sterility, lost dreams--no one could confuse Crimes of the Heart with 'Night, Mother or Shadow Box. The play is first and foremost a comedy and with rare exceptions, even the pain and introspection come across with a humorous edge...