Word: tragic
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...love the country” without a modicum of ironic inflection.In its depiction of Marie’s private life, the film is gentle and forgiving. Through Coppola’s lens, Marie’s excess and indulgence achieve a sort of wistful purity and tragic transcendence, as if sadly embodying a spoiled, yet lonely child’s melancholic yearning. The movie is, above all, a testament to incongruity and ambivalence: much as Marie is at once dangerously unrestrained and wholly stifled, Coppola herself is simultaneously attentive to historic detail and not unpleasantly anachronistic in her revisionism. Seamlessly...
...thousands” of other women attesting to having had an abortion. It tries to be harrowing, introspective, and devastating, but mostly comes across as silly and intellectually incoherent. The most widely deployed rationale among pro-choicers justifies abortion as a private matter, a kind of tragic decision of women affecting their bodies and their lives, with which an overzealous, Puritanical, and totalitarian government must not interfere. Yet by airing all this laundry, Ms. Magazine denies the very consciousness it tries to create. It ostensibly wishes to grant women privacy, yet publicly broadcasts the names, faces, and personal stories...
...Wife 1 & 2,” the first two parts of the suite concluded by the opening song. With a restrained sound, “The Crane Wife” gradually builds from acoustic strumming to full band crescendo. The story itself is, like most on the album, a tragic saga about kindness, greed, and misfortune...
...that said, if these arcane stories feel slightly repetitive, it is only because of Meloy’s previous success—no other band comes remotely close to his tragic sketches and roguish tales. Although one can imagine Capitol Record’s hand behind radio-perfect songs like “O Valencia!” or the disco-beat of “Perfect Crime #2,” by and large the Decemberists newfound musical depth naturally fits Meloy’s sublime stories...
...Tower’s coffin. The Los Angeles-based liquidation firm’s $134.3 million bid bested an offer by Trans World Entertainment, which wanted to keep some of the chain’s branches in business. “It’s genuinely very sad and tragic,” Valentine said. The store’s Harvard Square branch opened exactly 15 years ago to the date—Oct. 12, 1991—according to a Crimson article at the time. “Now there are going to be large parts of America that...