Word: tragic
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...cleans up her act. "If the time should come that Kathleen has been successful in working with other organizations," he says, "then of course I would consider it." Abandoned, scorned and vilified, Battle is at last appearing in the kind of role she is not accustomed to singing: tragic heroine. It's not a part that suits her. She would do far better to rediscover the wholesome, appealing qualities that made her a star in the first place and leave the prima donna business to someone else...
...film revolves around Julie, played excellently by the lovely Juliette Binoche, who finds herself alone after her husband and daughter die in a tragic car crash. Her husband Patrice (Hugues Quester), a world famous composer, was in the midst of writing a concerto celebrating the unification of Europe when he was killed. A reporter covering Patrice's death mentions the rumor that it is actually Julie who composed her husband's works. After the tragedy, Julie attempts to retreat from society, moving to a seedy section of Paris. She sells most of her material belongings, using the money to provide...
...about undisguisedly thrusting religious imagery onto the viewer, for in the brief opening sequence of "La dolce vita", he depicts the Second Coming of Christ with a helicopter carrying a statue of Jesus Christ towards St. Peter's Square in Rome. But Fellini immediately proposes the tragic theme of a world incapable of spiritual reawakening, a world without God where people are incapable of giving and receiving love. Reporters covering the story of the statue's transport are inside the helicopter, and the only people they humorously manage to "awaken" are four attractive sunbathers on a rooftop shouting...
...Bonnie and Clyde" is playing at the Brattle on Valentine's Day but don't let that fool you into thinking that it is a sappy, tender love story. It is not. This classic is a comic-tragic-chase-adventure story that will appeal to any February 14th moviegoer...
...heightened tensions are made more tragic because blacks and Jews share common interests. "Jews are the most natural white allies that blacks have," says Jonathan Kaufman, author of Broken Alliance, a book about black-Jewish relations. "Jews still remain the one group that's willing to vote for a black candidate." And although the press dwells on alleged black anti- Semitism, Roger Wilkins, a professor of history at George Mason University, observes, "Black people didn't create the law firms and banking firms that wouldn't hire Jews. The Wasps did that...