Word: tragic
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Tyson's story, of course, has a tragic ending: the heavyweight champion was convicted of raping a contestant at the 1991 Miss Black America Pageant and is serving six years in federal prison. Fallen Champ recounts that notorious case with evenhanded sensitivity and an absence of polemical heat. Queen is overwrought but ultimately comforting; Fallen Champ is understated and as punishing as a left...
...professor at the National Law Center, says the department's political bosses severely hampered his effort to investigate complaints of sexual harassment suffered by the department's female lawyers. "The bosses won't allow the department to be put in an embarrassing position," says Turley. "This is a tragic consequence of the culture. The whole Justice Department building needs to be scrubbed down by the Clinton Administration...
There is a tragic wrong being committed here. It comes in the form of the staff's baseless and blistering attack on two men whose only crime is that they dare to dream...
...figured we'd miss the real Tommy's, and we were right. We'd gladly put up with greasy burgers in the dark and dusty grime. Tommy, come back. It's not too late to right this tragic wrong...
Irma Vep has all the elements of a romantic horror story, including vampires, mummies, a family curse, portraits which come to life, a servant with a peg leg, mysterious deaths and a tragic love triangle (or quadrangle as the case...