Word: tragically
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Hubris -- a kind of convulsive, ambitious pride -- was the tragic flaw in many a Greek hero, but it is life's blood to theater people. What else gives them the courage to put epic dreams on a bare stage, to evoke ancient empires with only words and a few props? Arrogance is the mother of theatrical invention, and the spur to Douglas C. Wager's new production of Derek Walcott's The Odyssey at the Arena Stage in Washington...
Distraught Hollis residents spent the past week putting their tragic lives back together, while trying to figure out who was going to cover the $80,000 worth of water damage from last Friday night...
...freak show. It is a poignant, often funny fable, unfolding like a cautionary bedtime tale. It skips delicately among the ruins of passion, obsession and propriety. As in the novel and movie Like Water for Chocolate, family matters are treated in a mode balanced between magic realism and tragic surrealism...
...grant that the trial of O.J. Simpson is a case unto itself. What with the consuming attention of the media, the camera-ready lawyering, the surrounding atmosphere -- alternately tragic and coarse, that seems like something from Dostoyevsky read aloud by Jackie Collins -- there's nothing typical about it. This would extend to the jury selection that begins this week. In a nation where jury duty is considered second only to a tax audit among the devices of government-inflicted pain, there are people who are struggling to sit in judgment on this one. Responses to jury call notices...
...investigation grew out of unusually tragic circumstances. On two separate occasions, Dr. Massimo Trucco learned about a teenager who had died within a few weeks of developing diabetes. Trucco asked the parents for permission to perform autopsies, which showed direct evidence of an infection in the pancreas. More to the point, Trucco and colleagues found that the microscopic intruder had triggered an overwhelming immune response much greater than what was needed to subdue the virus. Unfortunately, the pancreas is particularly vulnerable to such an assault, and much of the tissue that produces insulin -- a hormone enabling cells to use sugar...