Word: tragic
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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These five happy-go-lucky musicians offered a lighter, happier alternative to the melodrama of Guns N' Roses and unapologetic experimentalism of bands like the Red Hot Chili Peppers and Faith No More. On their EP, As Ugly As They Wanna Be, UKJ never got deeper than the tragic teenage problems of parents and parties...
...last shots of hero and heroine gazing westward toward mist-shrouded mountains, the film's sensuous evocations of an Arcadian wilderness draw us into a remote realm -- just as the need to penetrate the majesty and mystery of that landscape draws its characters irresistibly on to fates ennobling and tragic...
...going down in defense 5% a year." Besides letting huge clouds of steam out of the overall economy, the military build-down will take a huge personal toll on displaced workers. Says labor expert Lacey: "The people who are being jettisoned by the U.S. defense industry form a particularly tragic group in the U.S. work force right now. Some are high-wage production workers, roughly analogous to ex-autoworkers. As a result, the odds of their finding commensurate re-employment approach zero...
...shocked and saddened to hear of the death of James Houghton of the Class of 1994," Rudenstine said. "This is a wrenching and tragic experience and I know his loss will be felt deeply by all who knew...
...that anecdote suggests, Evelyn Arthur St. John Waugh all too often behaved like a character from one of his evergreen comic novels. Yet as Martin Stannard makes clear in this second and concluding volume of his brilliantly definitive biography, Waugh was a sad and even tragic figure. In his youth a dandified aesthete and party animal, he evolved into an eccentric, scowling, West Country squire who wore hideous tweed suits and wielded a Victorian ear trumpet like a snickersnee against enemies, real and imagined. That noli me tangere pose barely masked the inner Waugh: a self-lacerating loner...