Word: tragic
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...tradition and loyalty of its own alumni who have served the Cambridge Boston community and maintained devotion and commiotment to social and community causes. It is a tragic irony that a "gift" to Harvard for unspecified purposes should fracture the Harvard community...
...employees had a last fling, taking the wheel of De Lorean's cars, called the DMC-12 (after De Lorean Motor Co.), for a few turns around the premises. Hundreds of other workers in Northern Ireland stood to lose their jobs with companies that supplied the factory, a tragic circumstance for a place that has an unemployment rate of about 22%. De Lorean's project was obviously risky, but it was doomed in the end by his own mistakes and some events he could not control. Sales, buoyed by dealers' hype, were brisk when the car first...
Life, Death, the Zeitgeist, and above all the tragic though profitable condition of being a Great Artist. It is big, and stuffed with clunky references to other Great Art, from Caravaggio to Joseph Beuys. Its imagery is callow and solemn, a Macy's parade of expressionist bric-a-brac: skulls, bullfights, crucifixes, severed heads. It includes portraits of the likes of Baudelaire, Artaud, Burroughs and other connoisseurs of crisis. It serves up, by implication, the image of Schnabel himself as a young Prince of Aquitaine, albeit a Texan one, sleepless with memory and disillusion, contemplating the wrenched spare parts...
...murders of Robert Kennedy and Martin Luther King strike a similar chord. These men had a particular quality that made them a part--however intangible--of people's lives Perhaps it came from shared causes and ideas, or simply grew out of the cult of personality. Regardless, their tragic deaths were greeted with the kind of heartfelt grief usually reserved for the loss of a family member...
...accuracy rare in most biographies of popular artists. Rolling Stone writers saw Lennon the musician, the radical and the husband/father. Lennon the film maker, the thinker and the Beatles. Their visions add up to present a man who created without compromise, without abandoning his convictions. The portrait shows how tragic it is that Lennon died before his time with so much more left to give. But he has willed to us all the legacy of his art. That will have to be enough...