Word: tragic
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...particularly successful part of the Museum's work has been the series of exhibits for he University community and the public mounted since 1982, thanks largely to the energy and imagination of Nitza Rosovsky, the curator of exhibits. Her resignation from the Museum staff I regard as tragic. While the exhibits have added to the deficit, owing particularly to the overhead costs of the Museum staff, they are an aspect of the Museum's life which must be continued, but focused more on its core collections...
Burk needed to sit with her son and explain that what Beavis and Butthead were doing was not right. She needed to explain to him the difference between television and reality. Burk didn't do this and the consequence was tragic...
...Structurally, the piece owes much to Biloxi: a group in thrall to a dangerous leader, a boot camp that hardens the head more than the heart, a tense scene where some teammate is to be unjustly cast out, a summing-up of everyone's future fate. But Biloxi had tragic overtones, while Laughter on the 23rd Floor is comedy, comedy...
...bored wife (two-time Tony Award winner Christine Baranski) chucks him out. In another, she commits suicide by leaping off the tacky flat's tiny balcony. In a third, their children join her in denouncing him. In the last -- the quietest, most real and yet, one feels, the most tragic -- he settles down at the table to eat yet another loathed diet meal of water-packed tuna as his wife sits opposite, each stuck in the nightly silence of despair...
...lived in Peru for 20 years. The insurgency's effects are seen through the fictional Andean village of Rayopampa. By enticing its young people into their movement and provoking the military, the Senderistas force everyone to take sides, creating deadly divisions. Though the story is fictional, the tragic reality is that similar scenarios mark Shining Path's 13 years of terror. The film has now opened in Peru, drawing favorable critical reaction -- but so far few moviegoers...