Word: tragic
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...police, more than 25 people had been injured and 45 more had been arrested, mainly for looting. The disturbances lasted for three days but were minor compared with Miami's 1980 Liberty City riots, in which 18 people died. Said Police Chief Kenneth Harms: "It is a tragic situation, but not a major circumstance...
...Peter MacNicol)--evidently based on Styron himself learns only gradually that the beautiful woman who lives upstairs in his boardinghouse is haunted by a terrible past. Extended flashbacks, shot on location in Europe with English subtitles, slowly unfold the extent of that terror up to Sophie's final and tragic "choice," so that the viewer's reactions parallel Stingo's own. Longer than the conventional flashback, these sequences demonstrate Pakula's scrupulous care in reproducing Styron's tone. An actual concentration camp in Yugoslavia forms the background, and Meryl Streep as Sophie appears with near-shaven head, made...
...Most Tragic Waste: The senseless death of John Belushi, 33, from a drug overdose, which silenced one of the best comic talents of his generation...
Forecasters scanning the horizon for an economic recovery have begun to feel a bit like Vladimir and Estragon, those frustrated characters in the play Waiting for Godot who keep expecting something that never happens. Now in its 18th month, the recession has been a longer-running and more tragic drama than almost anyone originally predicted. For that reason, the TIME Board of Economists was extraordinarily cautious as it met last week in New York City to survey the outlook for the new year. The economists expect the recovery to begin during the first quarter of 1983, but rarely have they...
...future, Americans continually search for their roots and origins; we Mexicans search for ways to modernize our country and open it to the future. The history of Mexico since the end of the 18th century has been the struggle for modernization. It is a struggle that has been frequently tragic and often fruitless. To ignore this is to ignore what is Mexico today, with its economic vicissitudes and the continuous zigzag of its political system...