Word: tragic
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...tragic death of Korean Boxer Kim Duk Koo [Nov. 29]: Let's not point a finger at boxing. Perhaps more than any other sport, boxing is a microcosm of life in which the lessons of victory and defeat are taught in brutal fashion. Casualties are bound to occur, just as in other professions where pressures can lead to ulcers, alcoholism and suicide. Boxing is one more example of humans striving for a dream...
...Tragic Protest At the Washington Monument, a loner self-destructs
...short presidency, for all the differences of style, were the best, or least unsuccessful, of the 1960s and 1970s. Lyndon Johnson's Great Society legislation was a noble achievement (though the programs went wildly out of control). But the L.B.J. presidency is forever blighted by the tragic failure in Viet Nam. Richard Nixon was our best President of foreign policy since Eisenhower, not just because he had the wit to employ Dr. Kissinger, but his presidency will never recover from Watergate. The returns are not yet in on Jimmy Carter's foreign policy. His economic policies were...
DIED. Queen Helen of Rumania, 86, stately Princess of Greece and Denmark whose marriage to the irresponsible King Carol II was the stuff of tragic drama; in Lausanne. Seven years after their wedding in 1921, the strong-willed Queen divorced her recklessly unfaithful husband, and later entered a quiet European exile, declaring: "My life has been a sad one for years, and now I am going out into the dark:" Moved by her dignity and grace, Rumanians urged her to resume her royal duties, but thereafter she served only as an unassuming Queen Mother and adviser to her son Michael...
...death. Playing the suffering saint can make and shape an actress's career (like Garbo's); it can win fans, raves and Oscars. This year the only sure shots for Best Actress nominations are two more divine masochists in dour year-end movies. Meryl Streep incarnates a tragic Polish heroine in an adaptation of William Styron's bestselling novel Sophie's Choice, and Jessica Lange slips under the fair, glistening skin of '30s Movie Star Frances Farmer in Frances...