Word: tragical
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...even a sequence late in Elizabeth which cross-cuts between shots of the Queen at prayer and the conspirators against her being assassinated--this capo of England never chooses to become "Godmother." And without Elizabeth's complicity in her own fate, the consquences of her power lack the tragic heft of Pacino's deeds at the end of The Godfather Part II. The china doll face...
...treatment of the issue of self-segregation particularly disturbed me. I recognize the strengths of self-segregation, but I also see it as tragic. I understand that many black students should have a place to get together where they do not have to worry about, as one panelist put it, "dealing with racial stuff." I also understand that white people self-segregate all the time--athletes with athletes, Jews with Jews, artists with artists. Amidst all this other self-segregation, black students often get singled out because they are conspicuous...
...focused ensemble that rarely overpowered the singers. The orchestra consistently rose to whatever musical tasks Verdi's score demanded--be it charming and bubbly Parisian waltz music, subtle love aria music, or even the passionate, bombastic, coronary-inducing orchestral forces sometimes needed in the more histrionic scenes of high tragic opera...
...hysterical or overly mopey that it is annoying. Her only noticable slip-up came at the very end of her death scene, in which she fell rather unceremoniously into the arms of Alfredo rather than using the more dramatic death-swoon that is needed for depressingly tragic high Romantic opera. But by that time the audience was so enamored with her and with the self-sacrificing Violetta she brought to life that she was immediately greeted with a lengthy standing ovation (one can assume that a less blue-blooded Back Bay Brahmin audience would have been more enthusiastic with lots...
...either "love," "death" or "everything in between." He divides his stories into those three major sections, each in chronological order. For example, in the death section, the development of his writing seems to progress through the pages from the wonderfully simple satire of "The Hitman" to the long, more tragic "Mexico." "The Hitman" is composed of short clipped statements concerning key points in the hitman's life. Continuing with his theme of incongruity, the hitman has donned a black mask since childhood and "wastes" his parents. Nevertheless, when the hitman marries and has a child, Boyle makes a statement about...