Word: tragic
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...joke” (I’m sure my future significant other could offer legitimate forms of jokes from “Seinfeld”), their one moment lapse of judgment has now been memorialized by the global spatiality of Facebook. In short, it’s a rather tragic depiction of what happens when Facebook gets out of control...
...more relevant concern than what brought us to war is what needs to be done to end it. Hillary’s position is clear: If we are still in Iraq in 2009, she will pull us out, with a balanced approach of humanitarianism and realism to ending this tragic...
MILLSTONE TOWNSHIP, NEW JERSEY Tiny casket laid to rest after tragic Bronx fire...
Until now. Later this month Hofstadter will publish I Am a Strange Loop (Basic Books; 412 pages), in which he expands and builds on the groundwork he laid in his earlier work. But Hofstadter has been through a lot in the past 28 years, including the tragic death of his wife, and I Am a Strange Loop goes to far darker and more personal places than the playful book I read as a teenager...
...touching and appealing as Sally Field’s character is, her children—and this reviewer—can’t help but start to wish that she would just hurry up and die. Despite the film’s humorous moments, death is an unmercifully tragic subject, and attempts to make light of it often fall flat. Decide for yourself whether you would voluntarily choose to spend two hours dealing with such disconcerting feelings. —Abigail J. Crutchfield can be reached at acrutchf@fas.harvard.edu...