Word: tragical
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...made by veteran adults (director Mark Rydell; writers Marshall Brickman and David Rayfiel). It takes up a "mature" (if not exactly original) theme, that of a man torn between the responsibilities of marriage and the delights of a young mistress. It comes to an ending that is both tragic and neatly ironic. And it is a movie that does not for one minute draw you into its life, make you believe in its reality...
When TIME covers earthquakes, floods and other natural disasters, we portray ordinary people at a particularly harrowing point in their lives. This week's cover photo, for example, shows California nurse Hyun Sook Lee at a moment of the most tragic grief, learning of the death of her son in the Northridge earthquake. Rarely, though, do we follow up on such people's stories. What becomes of them months or years later, long after the immediate crisis has subsided...
...Name of the Father" successfully presents a shocking, contemporary tragic drama without employing the fabricated tone of so many recent courtroom films. Director Jim Sheridan expertly captures the emotional passage of time of the film's main character, the wrongfully accused Irish prisoner Gerry Conlon (Daniel Day-Lewis...
...Cats ("Aeschylus did not invent theater to have it end with a bunch of chorus kids wondering which of them will go to Kitty Kat Heaven."), to Harvard students, ("Is that all I am? An investment?"). At the same time it captures with great compassion and understanding the tragic fears and disappointments in the lives of those who seem to have...
...appeared on the show Tuesday night as well, but lost in what he called a "tragic finish." It all turned sour, he said, when he missed a question on saccharine in the category "Sweeteners...