Word: tragical
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...gaping crowds by playing the trumpet and baseball. Alas, he also disrupts traffic and incurs the wrath of policemen. Here ends the similarity of ape and monster. William Joyce's plot and pictures provide laughter, thrills and, most important, a happy ending. Fair enough. Kong, after all, was a tragic figure; Bob is a comic creature. It was beauty killed the beast; it is whimsy keeps the reptile alive...
...drug addiction more widespread and lethal than anywhere else in Europe. The country has the largest number of addicts on the Continent: an estimated 300,000 to 400,000 are hooked on heroin alone. So far this year, 700 Italians, mostly young people, have died from overdoses -- another tragic record -- with the highest death tolls in industrial centers like Milan and Turin. Says Milan Mayor Paolo Pillitteri: "The problem has exploded this year. The quantity of heroin and cocaine on the streets is enormous." Every day, he says, special sanitation crews pick up some 4,000 syringes discarded by drug...
...business with a killer fish, a body-stocking condom, a ballplaying assassin (Reggie Jackson) and the Queen of England. As Frank could tell you, it's the same old story: "Boy finds girl. Boy loses girl. Girl finds boy. Boy forgets girl. Boy remembers girl. Girl dies in a tragic blimp accident over the Orange Bowl on New Year...
...also writes about the forgotten players. While he may praise Kerr for his courage to have a spectacular season even after his father's tragic death in Lebanon, Feinstein devotes a good portion of the book to Walter Lambiotte, the former North Carolina State player who transfered to North-western and had to sit out a year...
...knows? And, finally, does it matter? For the business of these two agents in Mississippi, who are never referred to by their first names, is not to typify realistically an institution, but to represent two basic, conflicting human responses to being cast by chance in a tragic historical drama. Anderson and Ward are investigating the disappearance of three civil rights workers, two Northern college students and a local black -- a fictional case obviously inspired by the murders of James Chaney, Andrew Goodman and Michael Schwerner, workers in the 1964 drive to register black voters in the Deep South...