Word: tragical
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...these grim facts, the rabbis' letter is thin in commentary. While there are no totally innocent victims in the tragic Israeli-Palestinian conflict, it is Israel which dominates and oppresses the Palestinians, not the reverse. There is no possible justification for Israel's heinous actions, and the rabbis do a great disservice to all involved parties by obscuring and implicitly excusing them. Robert Weissman '88-'89 Jaron Bourke...
Foreign affairs got relatively short shrift, and neither debater broke new ground. Dukakis, as expected, assailed Bush sharply for the Administration's dealings with Panamanian strongman Manuel Noriega and for its "tragic" sales of arms to Iran. Bush, he said, had not been "out of the loop," as the Vice President had contended, but had attended "meeting after meeting after meeting" at which the arms sales were discussed and approved. His own position, said Dukakis, was that "there can be no concessions under any circumstances" to terrorists, however "agonizing" it might be to let American citizens remain in captivity...
...typical movie biography, the protagonist struggles against the world's indifference and malevolence to make himself heard. In the process he acquires those spiritual wounds that justify his bad behavior and lend his inevitable tragic end an instructive note: treat talent kindly; it may be in touch with the infinite...
...full of sympathy for them. It is tragic that they must wait 30 or 40 years for an apartment, that they cannot afford so many things that the rest of the world has. If the young ones start shouting and demonstrating, well, that is the right of youth. I would also be shouting if I were them. I would make Walesa's life harder...
...Sweeney) or the sparkling fielding of Buck Weaver (John Cusack) and Hap Felsch (Charlie Sheen). What Sayles tries to create in Eight Men Out is a struggle between the innocence of baseball and the outside forces that try to smear baseball's image. Such a struggle leads to tragic consequences...