Word: tragic
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...found a club called "the Room" so they could booze in private. They dabbled in politics and traveled the globe trying, with ( disastrous results, to re-enact their father's adventures. Theodore Jr. did end up as a hero of the D-day landings, but Kermit's story was tragic: his heavy drinking persisted, and he eventually killed himself. The maliciously funny Alice Roosevelt Longworth was the real original of the group, but as a woman, she was held back by the times...
...manager of a baseball team, and your players are all girls (A League of Their Own). Or your girlfriend is a fish (Splash). Your wife has died (Sleepless in Seattle). You think you're dying (Joe Versus the Volcano). You are dying (Philadelphia). Whether the dilemma is fantastic or tragic, Hanks gives it an apt, gentle heft...
...single worst film I have ever seen in a theatre. It's true that even lesser works such as "The Cutting Edge" have been rented and watched in my presence. And since I have only been on the planet 20 years, so I will probably see worse, barring a tragic dismemberment of director Stephen Hopkins, which if you are unlucky enough to see "Blown Away," you will learn is a consummation devoutly to be wished...
...chance of recovery. "We never believed that it was a 1% chance. If we thought that it was not a reconstructible heart except for a snowball's chance in hell, we would have advised against it. We take long odds every day, but not crazy odds." Others agree. "The tragic end result does not mean that the right decision was not made from the beginning," says Mark Siegler, director of the MacLean Center for Clinical Medical Ethics at the University of Chicago. "The baby's clinical course supports the original judgment that this was a case they could deal with...
Many unlicensed motorists drive anyway, with tragic results...