Word: tragic
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...second half, the movie changes course, drifting into a bolero that uses softer, lusher overtones. Together, Glimcher and his cast reveal the human and tragic qualities of the characters...
Heimert claims that as house master, he encountered a number "tragic instances of people...brought here to Harvard to build up the numbers and can't keep their head above water...
...Raul Julia and pop singer Sheena Easton in Man of La Mancha, Peter Gallagher (of the movie sex, lies, and videotape) in Guys and Dolls and Gregory Hines in Jelly's Last Jam, a portrait of composer Jelly Roll Morton. Next month Pulitzer prizewinner August Wilson's subtly tragic and robustly comic Two Trains Running will feature Larry Fishburne from the film Boyz N the Hood, while the Australian drama Shimada, about a Japanese-led corporate takeover, will offer Ellen Burstyn, Ben Gazzara and Estelle Parsons. Al Pacino opens in two one-act plays in late...
...German production presents real people, not stereotyped Hollywood war characters. The movie succeeds in sending an antiwar message, constantly hinting at the tragic waste...
Judge Declan Costello, in a lengthy ruling, argued that the E.C. stricture did not apply to moral questions like abortion. He said he had no choice but to follow the law, though it might be "very painful, distressing and tragic for the girl and her family." The judge labeled the perpetrator, who had allegedly molested the girl for two years before raping her in December, as "depraved and evil," adding that the traumatized victim "wanted to kill herself by throwing herself down the stairs...