Word: tragical
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Lezama maintains that Smith should not be judged on the basis of her social role as mother, and that the complexities of contemporary life for women somehow explain "why she was desperately looking for a way out." Lezama makes the inductive error of tracing one tragic act to a larger political condition...
...post office facility in Newry, 30 miles south of Belfast. The murder of a postal clerk was the first since the I.R.A. announced a cease-fire in September. It caused the Irish government to rescind plans for the early release of I.R.A. prisoners. Sinn Fein said the killing was tragic and wrong...
What is profoundly disturbing about "Hoop Dreams" is not that its two protagonists will probably fall short of NBA stardom. Rather, it is the particular kind of failure--intractable, cyclical and tragic--that makes the film pathetic...
...indication that they have come to terms with the problems of their childhood and will choose to make things different in their own homes. On the contrary, it is easy to see how the sons will become the fathers in the next generation's hoop dreams. The tragic cycle of inner-city life will be repeated once again...
...film is a product of attitudes towards science in its time, thus ruling out Shelley's tragic father-son relationship. The 'science' of phrenology, the study of the physical characteristics of the skull as an indicator of personality and behavior, is used as a horror technique, obscuring true possibilities of horror. The brain transplanted into Boris Karloff's monster is that of a psychopathic criminal, presumed to be preprogrammed for murder and mayhem. The revealing of this fact to 'Dr. Frankenstein extracts a reaction of dread at the inevitable terrors such a brain, reanimated, will produce. Yet Karloff...