Word: tragical
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Front, an amalgam of four rebel groups, advanced to within eight miles of Addis Ababa, but then seemed to heed pleas from Western diplomats not to enter the city pending negotiations scheduled for this week in London on forming a new government. The situation might have been decidedly more tragic had Mengistu not agreed to leave. Though the civil war between his army and the rebels had turned decisively against him, for months the Ethiopian leader had resisted pressure to step down. Only after Zimbabwe's President Robert Mugabe sent a personal note offering asylum, and after the demoralized Ethiopian...
...Wright's fall, Clifford observes, had elements of Greek tragedy. The same is true of Clifford's present crisis. If he has a tragic flaw, it might ^ be his compulsion to stay in what he calls "Washington's great contest." He was one of the city's most incurable workaholics, putting in nights and weekends at the office so he could take on presidential errands and still have a flourishing practice. When Ronald Reagan took over the White House, and conservative Republicanism became the spirit of the times, Clifford must have felt increasingly outside the power game...
Romeo and Juliet: This tragic tale of star-crossed lovers received a fresh and vibrant interpretation by director Jim Marino. Marino emphasized the youthfulness of Shakespeare's characters and the bloody consequences of their immature passions. Tom Chick and Shelia McDonald earned our empathy with their appealing performances as Romeo and Juliet. McDonald's Juliet was particularly impressive--her balcony scene reminded the audience of an infatuated teenager pining away for her musical idol in Bye Bye Birdie...
These children have very different problems and prospects, but they all have one thing in common: their mothers repeatedly took crack cocaine, often in combination with other drugs, during pregnancy. That makes them part of a tragic generation of American youngsters -- a generation unfairly branded by some as "children of the damned" or a "biologic underclass." More often, they are simply called crack kids. A few have severe physical deformities from which they will never recover. In others the damage can be more subtle, showing up as behavioral aberrations that may sabotage their schooling and social development. Many of these...
Confronted by such tragic chapters in the saga of crack, Americans tend to focus on questions of state intervention: At what point should authorities act to remove a child from the home of drug-abusing parents? At birth? When there is clear evidence of abuse or neglect? How about before birth? -- the position of a growing number of people calling for mandatory birth control for female addicts. For Daniel Scott, intervention never came...