Word: tragic
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...documentary feature went to El Perro Negro: Stories from the Spanish Civil War, by director Peter Forgacs, a collage brilliantly assembled from the work of two amateur filmmakers of the period. The prize for best documentary short went to director Dan Krauss for The Life of Kevin Carter, the tragic story of a photojournalist who took one of the most memorable pictures of our time, of a vulture stalking a starving child in Sudan...
...really tragic incident,” she said. “Everyone from high school was upset to hear about the way that everything happened...
...Kennedy School of Government student and Director Eleni Andreadis tells it, it was precisely the famously tragic American elements of the story that drew her to the play. Indeed, the London-trained actress and first-time director said, “Coming from the U.K., I have already done plays by the sort of Oscar Wildes and other typical British playwrights. Being here, now, in the States, I was really excited to do something by an American playwright—in particular, Tennesse Williams...
Hilarious but at times tragic, “Twelfth Night” begins when fraternal twins Viola (Catherine P. Walleck ’06) and Sebastian (Daniel D. Castro ’06) are shipwrecked in Illyria, each believing the other is dead. The story follows Viola as she dons the guise of a boy and joins the court of Orsino (Fernando Berdion-Del Valle ’08), the local Duke with whom she falls in love. Unfortunately, Orsino is madly in love with Olivia (Anastasia Artemyev ’08), to whom he sends his new page...
...Wayne. The Florida courts, like those elsewhere, have long acknowledged that shooting someone in self-defense is, on occasion, a tragic necessity. It's just that, until now, most states have held to the notion that lethal force should be avoided whenever a reasonable alternative, like running away, is safely possible. The recognized exception is when a person's home has been invaded, at which point the homeowner may shoot first and ask questions later--a provision commonly referred to as the "Castle Doctrine." But the N.R.A. and Florida lawmakers apparently felt the definition of one's "castle" needed broadening...