Word: tragic
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...done after visiting the squalid aboriginal encampments in central Australia made for people exiled within their own country and between two cultures. Known as the Love, Marriage and Death of a Half-Caste series, these Chagall-like images may be flawed by sentimentality but they achieve at times a tragic gravity, and are virtually the first effort by a white Australian artist to express the guilt of racism...
...alarmed. What you are about to read may offend you. But that isn't altogether tragic, since what you are about to read is an irreverent but hopefully comical satire of Harvard students--the types they come in and the mannerisms that characterize them...
...show off, but for Hugh Grant the occasion proved mortifying. "The first time I took my shirt off on the set," he says, referring to the filming of Four Weddings and a Funeral, "the make-up artist asked, 'Do you want definition painted in?' What was even more tragic is that I would have liked it but could not face having it painted on in front of everyone else. I'm still getting over that...
...punk heroes. He decoded his simple mission in the booklet for the 1992 compilations album Incesticide. "To pay tribute like an Elvis or Jimi Hendrix impersonator in the tradition of a bar band." Yet, both Elvis Presley and Jimi Hendrix were rock gods who succumbed early to tragic drug overdoses. So wouldn't chance departure form this life be a pathetic cliche...
...Tragic Lesson...