Word: tragic
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...warmed to the group's sound is the prevalence of bizarre non-sequiturs inserted into the lyrics, seemingly only for shock value. In the opening bars of the third track, "Heroine," Anderson sings, "She walks in beauty like the night/Discarding her clothes in the plastic flowers/ Pornographic and tragic in black and white/ My Marilyn come to my slum for an hour." While some might deem this cacophony of metaphors poetic, the sheer blender-mixed quality disturbs the song's coherence. This choppiness makes it difficult the type of emotional kinship that seems to be the band's goal...
...involves a silly love story between La Mole and Margot, sometimes no more than an excuse for them to display their respective endowments and to pose prettily in profile. Needless to say, La Mole and Margot, like all good French lovers since Abelard and Heloise, are doomed and terrifically tragic. There are also poisonings, escape attempts, decapitations, incestuous rapes and boar hunts, all of which make "Queen Margot" a soap opera of historic order...
...pretty tragic," Cho says, referring tohow his father, although educated with a master'sdegree in economics in China, became a graphicsartist to support his family after emigrating...
...French gendarmes were able to determine the situation on board the aircraft by donning uniforms and impersonating airport service personnel. Let's face it: terrorists can read. Knowing exactly how the last group failed will enable the next bunch of skyjackers to execute their evil mission with even more tragic results...
...This was an incredibly tragic story, a young couple who had just married. I thought if it could bring any solace to the wife, it would be a little ray of sunshine in the midst of tragedy." --Dr. Craig Niederberger, a Chicago physician, referring to his recent extraction of sperm from the corpse of a newlywed man killed in a car crash...