Word: tragic
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...point, the poor girl compares her tragic assimilation into high school high society to Operation Desert Storm; at another, she says that the lunchroom hierarchy at Woodcliff is like the caste system in India...
...their father founded a half-century ago, Mininsedie, produced up to 500,000 chairs annually. But last year Mininsedie made just 130,000. Revenues have declined 50% in two years, and with losses mounting, the Minin brothers recently laid off five of their 15 employees. "The situation here is tragic," says Valerio, 51. "I just don't know how we're going to continue. You keep banging your head against the wall, and either the wall falls...
...most interesting moments occur when Hard-Fi tries to sound more Daft Punk than Maxïmo Park. But even that doesn’t always work, giving the music the unwelcome sweaty sensation of being trapped in a trashy European dischotheque. What’s most tragic about the release is that it finally gets good with the last track, “Stars of CCTV,”from which the album takes its name. It’s a completely different sound for Hard-Fi: the acoustic guitars give it an organic feel that never survives...
...darker side” of Hans Christian Andersen’s celebrated children’s stories (which, admittedly, never lurked too far beneath the surface anyway). Also unsurprisingly, Merritt’s songwriting creates a biting musical commentary for these stories, pairing sweet voices and upbeat melodies with tragic events and sinister intentions (witness “What a Fucking Lovely Day,” in which a villain remarks on the beauty of scheming and deception). Instrumentation is varied—Merritt employs sounds as diverse as the autoharp, the Chinese jinghu, and the lute?...
...Most of the government buildings and much of the city's historic districts were spared and no deaths were reported here, thought some two dozen people were injured, and it was no less tragic for the families who stood on the wrecked streets staring at homes and memories that vanished in a violent spasm of storms and tornadoes that first touched down about 7:20 p.m. Sunday roughly 60 miles southwest of Springfield and hit the capital an hour later...