Word: tragically
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...tragic end of Dev’s life came as a shock to all who knew him at Harvard, many of whom were invited to his coronation...
...shifts in the hills see little of the gold they bring out of the earth. Although working underground in makeshift mud tunnels is highly dangerous?occasionally fatal?it is the workers in the processing units who are in the gravest immediate peril. Unlike Femmy, whose baby was born with tragic deformities, many of the workers say that after educational campaigns by NGOs and the local government, they now know mercury can harm them. But the risk is more than offset by the high wages?nearly $50 a month, or double what they could make from a menial job in Manado...
...contemporary coins, Cleopatra appears masculine and powerful. Slim and serene in sculptures, she is sometimes portrayed as the goddess Isis, the divine, royal mother whose cult she followed. Erotic Roman caricatures depict her as a harlot. She is a sensual and tragic figure in Renaissance paintings and objets d'art. Her modern face comes straight from Hollywood, embodied most famously in 1963 by Elizabeth Taylor-whose off-screen affair with her own Mark Antony, co-star Richard Burton, recalled the 14th century writer Giovanni Boccaccio's description of Cleopatra as a woman "who became an object of gossip...
...fashion. Her luxurious banquet for Antony, his death, her grief at his tomb and her own death all are represented in paintings and sketches in the exhibition, as well as on a variety of decorative objects, including watches, fans and vases. The Renaissance portrayal of the tough and tragic seductress-as derived from the early Romans-has trickled down to the 20th century and beyond...
...Harbor is a totally terrible movie. It is watchable in a dim, beclouded sort of way. But one rather thinks that a film trying to recapture the romantic raptures and ruptures people suffered as World War II shattered their normality needs to impart a sense of their desperation as tragic possibility suddenly loomed in their lives...