Word: tragical
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Incarceration, Gesell explained, would only harden the "misconceptions" that had led North into wrongdoing. In Gesell's sight, North was a "low-ranking subordinate" ordered into illegal activity by "cynical superiors" in the White House's "elite isolation." Said Gesell: "You're not the fall guy for this tragic breach of public trust...
...people who worked on this movie are not without a certain sophistication. They know that the heroic, tragic and farcical modes, all of which they briefly lurch toward in the course of the film, are not really appropriate to their story. They are also aware of how rapidly the world has spun since their protagonist was burning pianos and churning up teenage hormones. Accelerated change of that sort produces the kind of broad fundamental irony that moviemakers who take themselves seriously always love. How dumb we were. And so recently. How easy it is to encourage the audience to join...
...after a secret trial and buried in an unmarked grave. Earlier this year, their bodies were exhumed for a formal, cathartic reburial. "Never again should such a terror occur," Miklos Vasarhelyi, Nagy's former press secretary, told the crowd. "We hereby close once and for all a tragic, painful epoch to be able to open a new page in the history of our nation...
...traces of the democracy movement takes precedence. A court in Shanghai accused three people of burning a train that ran over a human barricade, and quickly sentenced them to death. The harsh actions open the door to a wave of execution orders. Such a move would be tragic for China's psychic well-being and potentially fatal for its economic health, and it was unthinkable just a few weeks ago. But if China's leaders can get away with rewriting so recent a past, what is to stop them from scripting any future they choose...
...slow it down, to ease up. The things they said back you couldn't print. They grab a beer, jump on a machine, and it all goes to their head." This summer's new laws may force skiers to approach the machines more cautiously, and prevent another season of tragic accidents...