Word: tragical
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Local 26 at Harvard have suffered a tragic loss. Our Union Brother Sherman Holcombe has passed away. Brother Sherman stood by us and stood for us. We are together today and have won the gains we have won: because Brother Sherman was one of us. He united us both Black and White, even in the face of the ugly prejudice in society. He was an advocate of human rights, our rights, and set a precedent of standing up for our rights. When the pressure came down on all of us he bore the brunt of it to the extent...
...death is an incredibly tragic loss for all workers. Sherman was one of the most outspoken, friendly people I've known," Weisman said...
FINE performances in the rest of the cast match the skill in the title roles. Paul Redford is brilliant as Andrey Prozorov, the brother and owner of the estate, whose dream of becoming a university professor is frustrated by a tragic marriage to the bourgeois Natasha (Grace Shohet). Redford skillfully makes the transition from idealistic brother to alienated bitter council member. He epitomizes Andrey's awkwardness in his shuffling, hesitant walk and bursts of speech. And Shohet is deliciously annoying as the pushy, vulgar Natasha, who does nothing but drool--loudly--about her children...
...famous trio "So muss allein ich bleiben" ("I must remain alone, then"), Rosalinda--whom Gretchen Johnson plays with vocal agility but no sense of style--begins lamenting her parting with husband Einstein. But she, Eisenstein, and Alfred the mad Italian tenor keep breaking out of the mock tragic music into a perky little waltz, as if to tip the audience off that nothing happening on the stage is terribly important...
Perhaps the sickest and most tired was Fred Silverman, 41, the president of NBC, who threw two of his biggest movies into that black hole called the sweeps. "It's tragic," he says. "We had two blockbusters, Cuckoo's Nest and American Graffiti, on the air in this February period, and yet we reached only 32% of the audience. That is absolutely crazy. But the alternative would have been to put ordinary movies in there, and the only people who would have looked at them would have been the people in my family...