Word: tragic
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...joint press conference that was broadcast live across China. It was an astonishing affair, as Clinton and Jiang parried over human rights, Tiananmen Square and Tibet. Clinton patiently explained the U.S. position on Tiananmen: "I believe, and the American people believe, that the use of force and the tragic loss of life was wrong." Jiang countered by insisting, "Had the Chinese government not taken the resolute measures, we could not have enjoyed the stability we are enjoying today." Without prompting, Jiang denied that China had tried to influence American politics with campaign donations ("sheer fabrication") and said that the government...
...have the heart to put him in the ground." (Bullet received no such honor.) And to this day they eat at the restaurant chain that bears his name. Why did Roy Rogers endure? Probably because he always stayed clean. He married frequent costar Dale Evans in 1947, weathered the tragic loss of children in private, spoke at some of Billy Graham's revivals. He was lifelong friends with rival Gene Autry after supplanting him at Republic Pictures. Now that Roy Rogers has ridden into the sunset, it's easy to figure out why he was so well-loved: He never...
...house after a dalliance with her husband's 17-year-old son Alfonso, an art student and devilishly knowing seducer. Not for "Fonchito" such cloddish lines as "come up and see my etchings." Instead, he patiently inflames his reluctant step-mother with his enthusiasm for the tragic life and erotic work of the Austrian painter Egon Schiele...
...must cope with his fragmented household. "So broken was my father's family," he claims, "that it felt to me like a catastrophe you could live with only if you kept it quiet," but native childish curiosity drives him to push for answers. His father's family, with its tragic breakup and its missing brother, who may or may not have been an IRA hero, holds a score of riddles, and his mother's, which is mysteriously bound to his father's by more than their marriage, is just as puzzling. No adult will speak to him directly...
...tragic ironies of our celebrity age that our puffing-up of the famous in their lifetime is surpassed only by media frenzy that follows their death. While those celebrities who die young--Diana, JFK, James Dean, Marilyn Monroe and Kurt Cobain--remain forever young and full of promise in the public imagination, tragically, they have already left the stage when the applause for them is loudest and the spotlight brightest...