Word: tragically
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...lost and lonely Believing life was only A bitter, tragic joke Have found with you The meaning of existence O my love...
...didn't find the meaning of existence in Brazil. And I don't think life is a bitter tragic joke...
...Maybe life can be kind of a bitter, tragic joke...
South African writer and actress Pamela Gien's new one-woman play, "The Syringa Tree," is the tragic story of two South African families - one black, one white - and the complex love they share, even as race stands between them. While this isn't unexplored territory, what makes this production a standout is Gien's impressive performance in creating 28 fully realized characters on a sparsely decorated stage. Through her expressive movements and creative vocalizations - most startlingly in rapid-fire exchanges between six-year old Elizabeth and her redoubtable, deep-voiced South African caretaker - Gien single-handedly fills the stage...
...alternately angry and loving, teacher and student as I guided him through the intricacies of e-mail on his orange iMac. This way I can keep learning from him, remembering him when I keep people I love at a distance, or when I don't. His death is tragic because there was much more he could have taught me, and because I didn't learn enough while he was alive...