Word: tragicalness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Bundy was executed because the judicial system believed he did not belong to our vision of an ordered society. Where we believe that we respect the sanctity of human life, he was a man who found pleasure in that fleeting, tragic moment when life is extinguished...
...Cairo headquarters to masterminding Arab nationalism. In Peter O'Toole's pensive, swashbuckling incarnation, Lawrence makes for a curious messiah. With his skin like a mandarin orange dipped in sand, his voice intimate and cryptic, his haunted eyes staring from inside his burnoose, O'Toole creates a towering, tragic, high-camp sheik of Araby...
...this tragic and short-lived career which is visible, metaphorically, in much of Testa's work. His unique vision relies heavily on classical and mythological events thoughout his career, but when one considers the events of Testa's life, the autobiography behind the predominant themes becomes apparent...
...important and demonstrative works, The Suicide of Cato, followed the withdrawal of this commission, some critics have interpreted this ingenious etching as a dramatic portrayal of anticipated reactions to his subsequent suicide. Perhaps this work was a kind of catharsis for the primarily unhappy and unfulfilled life of this tragic genius...
...seems to be enjoying a revival in the Boston area, with other etching exhibits at the Museum of Fine Arts and the satellite exhibit at the Fogg, the Sackler Testa production is noteworthy for the artist's superior technical achievements and for his incorporation of the events of his tragic life into his works...