Word: tragical
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...piece are sharing the collective experience of living with an illness. They are making a positive experience of their coping with AIDS, in contrast to Croce's negative response of refusing even to see the piece. Everyone is a victim of something or other. If you can take a tragic situation, turn it into a positive experience for yourself and educate others at the same time, are you a victim or a victor...
...federal investigation into the cause of the tragic decent, which left two state troopers and two AT&T employees dead, has already revealed that the crash may have been caused by transmission failure in the six-seat American-made helicopter...
...years of each other toward the end of Puccini's career, and both exemplify his talent for making characters and emotions emerge from a complex musical tissue of motivic patterns. These pieces show Puccini at his most delicate, working with subjects that demand greater lightness of touch than the tragic loves of his better-known operas. The duster House double-bill, put together by an all-student cast and production team, is full of talent and enthusiasm. Even if it misses some of Puccini's subtleties, it amply conveys the charm of two lesser-known gems of the operatic repertoire...
...raid, embarrassing revelations emerged. Not only did police fail to beef up surveillance after a warning that a security-company robbery was being planned, but when the theft took place, most of the Brink's-Allied security staff were caught off guard in the canteen. The fiasco nearly turned tragic a week later, when journalist Veronica Guerin, who had written a profile of the chief suspect, was wounded at her home by a gunman; police believe the attack was linked to her report. Says actress Catherine Punch, 27: ``People tend to glamourize criminals and say, `Whoa, they got away with...
...ever imagined. It is easy to criticize, but everyone has to learn from this horrendous experience. Yoshiko Kawada Hachioji, Japan It happened all of a sudden in predawn darkness. My house was almost destroyed. It was a nightmare. Like a thunderbolt, violent movement ran through our street. After this tragic moment, deep silence came back in the darkness, and then I heard a voice crying for help. It was a horrible dream. After dawn, people in the street composed themselves and began to rescue those trapped under the crushed houses without considering their own lost property. My son started digging...