Word: tragic
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...what's inside that counts; the enthralling vistas matter less than the interior vision. That lesson is lost on Hollywood, whose idea of epic biography is a story of a big shot (Gandhi, Bugsy Siegel, Malcolm X) who got shot. Violent death is meant to lend tragic grandeur...
...court settlement this week appeared to end the six-year-old tragic drama of Paul Lozano and Dr. Margaret H. Bean-Bayog...
...fathers may lead to a certain moral blind spot in the sons. So, in judging the present emotion-filled crisis of the refugee presence in Germany, it seems to me all the more necessary to strive for an evenhandedness and objectivity in our judgment, lest yet another tragic lesson of history be re-enacted in our time -- namely, that all ethnic and religious hatreds and tragedies perpetuate and reinforce one another...
...much of the history is presented flatly; neither the faceoff between the Red Guard and the White Guard nor the constraint by censors of the protagonist writer Sergei Leontevich Maksudov feel effectively threatening or looming or tragic. The play, in fact, ultimately derives its strength not from the drama of its history but in spite of it. What is most engaging about the play is not the main plot but the subplot, not the tragic sequences tracing Stalinist repression but the comic theatrical sequences woven into the interstices. The comic representation of life at the Moscow Art Theatre...
...That the tragic elements seem ineffective can't really be blamed on the company, who turn in performances ranging from serviceable to superb. The sheer number of minor characters and the indistinguishability of their names does not prevent certain actors from achieving distinction: particularly wonderful were Candy Buckley as the secretary Polixena Vasilievna Toropetskaya, Margaret Gibson as the cat-hurling actress Lyudmila Silvestrovna Priakina and Jeremy Geidt as Romanus, the conductor at the Independent Theatre. Derek Smith is not a very dynamic Maksudov; although he expresses his suicidal desperation nicely, his creative anxieties and joys are only sketchily delineated. Alvin...