Word: tragic
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...Screened for the first time in ten years this past weekend at the Brattle Theater, “Let’s Get Lost” uses photographs, interviews, and archived film footage to tell the story of Baker, from his meteoric rise to stardom to his tragic fall into addiction, obscurity, and an early grave. The film struggles, but ultimately succeeds brilliantly in weaving together the strands of a life torn asunder, and, even to the luxurious sounds of Baker’s own music, it is difficult to do anything but recoil at the portrait that Weber paints.As...
...some time talking about the laments of average Americans he has met along the way; then he dives into a litany of solutions he has proposed to address the laments. But those are not nearly so convincing as Clinton's versions of the same; of course, Clinton has a tragic deficit when it comes to inspiration...
...mourning period of her death comes to a close, we should take a closer look at her past. Recent eulogies following her tragic death have missed these sub-narratives. Newspaper coverage in the West has emphasized Bhutto’s years at Harvard and Oxford, portraying her as a modern liberal woman who brought Western values back to her chaotic, unruly country. This image is Orientalism at its worst—the validation of a third world leader merely because she was ‘brought up the right...
Shortly before her own tragic death in December, Bhutto was negotiating an American-backed deal with President Pervez Musharraf to allow her to become prime minister again. The lawyer-led, pro-democracy movement in Pakistan saw this as a Faustian pact with a hated dictator...
...filled a scrapbook with pictures of movie stars. And we are all too familiar with photographs of young men, roaming the ruined streets of Baghdad carrying Kalashnikovs, but wearing Rolling Stone T-shirts and Nikes. You can, if you will, deplore disconnects of this kind - whatever became of the tragic sense of life? - or you can find a perverse sort of hope in them. Even slightly dopy little American comedies carry with them an implicit promise - of romance, of laughter, of (above all) the modest joys of ordinary life. And they carry that message - without even knowing...