Word: tragic
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...accent, so the mustache may tell us something else: Perhaps Earl is really a member of a throwback Mariachi band. Or perhaps this show was originally a starring vehicle for Saddam Hussein!Look, here’s what makes the demise of NBC’s Comedy department so tragic: They actually think this stuff is funny. At this point, I’d be more entertained if Dick Wolf came up with a “Law and Order: INS,” or if they put a laugh track on “The Apprentice...
...Keening” is a document of modern life in Colombia, but not a histrionic one. It portrays both the mundane and the shocking, the joyful and the tragic. By doing so with restraint and humor, playwright Humberto Dorado has managed to create a play that stands above its politics...
...older man, his death, her subsequent employments and romances, her friendships, and the places that she lived. The political elements first creep into the play near its end—in the brief mentions of her son’s mysterious activities—and then become overwhelming and tragic in the last 20 minutes...
Under the guidance of 2005 Visiting Director Brendan Hughes, the Harvard-Radcliffe Dramatic Club (HRDC) adaptation of the 1894 German sex drama “Lulu” is provocative without being sensational, profound without being excessively intellectual, and, despite its tragic ending, a definite artistic success...
...crime or just a tragic mistake? A Spanish judge opted for the former when he issued an international arrest warrant for three U.S. soldiers alleged to be responsible for firing a 120-mm tank shell into the Palestine Hotel in Baghdad on April 8, 2003, killing Reuters cameraman Taras Protsyuk and José Couso from the Spanish network Telecinco. Judge Santiago Pedraz's order charged that the Americans had committed a possible "crime against the international community." He said he issued the warrant because his court had received no response to its request for information about legal proceedings under...