Word: tragic
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...would be tragic if Clinton pursued an immigration policy that inadvertently resulted in hundreds or thousands of deaths at sea. But it is reprehensible to illegally return refugees to probable persecution in Haiti, and it is hypocritical to ask the Supreme Court to ratify a policy that Clin...
...there's nothing tragic about taking a roundabout route to your destination (although it has been cold outside). And there's nothing unusual about yet another film that puts Harvard in the spotlight (although this movie doesn't sound like the most accurate representation of undergraduate life...
Constantly taunting LeFranc and doting on Green Eyes, Maurice, played by Jessie Cohen, is the crucial tragic link between the two dominant men. Cohen delivers her performance with coquettish finesse, though it often becomes more irritating than attractive. Through her ability to bring out Maurice's naivete and fragile ego, she succeeds in shaping the tragic victim of masculine power games. Cohen is at her best during the penultimate scene in which her character, imbued with all the cattiness of a young boy in a man's world, challenges LeFranc...
...already do. At least, we know whodunit. Barney (Jeff Bridges), a nerdy schoolteacher with the improbable accent of a Swedish Peter Lorre, has abducted her and taken her to his lakeside cottage. When Barney reveals himself, Jeff must decide whether his need to know the ending, even a tragic one, to his story -- and they all died horribly ever after -- is worth putting his fate in Barney's treacherous hands...
...poet and a psychiatrist as well as the ruthless commander-in-chief of the Bosnian Serbs, tries a reverse approach. He says soldiers on all sides are committing rape. He sounds the note of bogus fatalism that is also a kind of blessing of rape: "It is tragic. But these dreadful things happen in all wars...