Word: tragically
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Jean-Bernard Diederich, a photographer working on this week's World story about Haiti's tragic attempt at free elections, had arrived only a few minutes earlier at L'Ecole Nationale Argentine Bellegarde, a Port-au-Prince elementary ) school. What he saw was a polling place turned into a killing ground. Bodies lay everywhere, some riddled by bullets, others hacked to pieces by machetes. A band of 50 Tonton Macoutes, former henchmen of the Duvalier family, had slaughtered almost a score of people as they lined up to vote...
...film, which Director Abuladze calls a "tragic phantasmagoria," uses allegory, fantasy and surrealism to evoke the terror of a totalitarian system. His central character is Varlam Aravidze, the mayor of a provincial town. Varlam combines Stalin's close-cropped haircut, Hitler's mustache and Mussolini's black shirt to embody the image of a universal tyrant. Although the setting and time are undefined -- secret police appear alternately as medieval knights or spear-wielding Roman centurions -- there is no doubt that the real subject is Stalinism...
...should be "creatively and honorably accepting aging and death, not struggling to overcome them." Medicine, Callahan chides, ought to "give up its relentless drive to extend the life of the aged," who in any event are often "being saved from death for chronic illness, with Alzheimer's as a tragic example." It is time to honor a "natural life-span" that normally winds down in the late 70s to mid-80s, he says. "How many years do we need to have a reasonably decent life, to raise a family, to work, to love...
...Franny Loses a Fight," in The Hotel New Hampshire, John Irving. All Hallow's Eve, Irving-style. Giant spikers. Heart attacks. Tortured children. A tragic rape. But there's the usual dose of good humor here, and Irving's spirit shines through bigger than the State o' Maine itself. This is Halloween candy to sink your wisdom teeth into, the Snickers bar in the bag of Golden Delicious apples...
AMERICA'S GULF strategy bears a frightening resemblance to its tragic attempt to bring peace to Beirut in 1982. Both then and now the White House committed America's prestige and credibility without defining its goals, let alone the best means to achieve them. There is little indication from the White House of an end to be achieved in the Gulf, or of a recalulcation of our reason for being there in light of the evidence that our presence seems to be helping the Iranians. And our forces in the area are sadly ill-suited for their job: multibillion dollar...