Word: tragically
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...AZIZ RANTISI, THE SPOKESMAN FOR 415 Palestinians expelled by Israel three weeks ago, looked out over the wintry landscape of the deportees' tent camp in southern Lebanon. "This is the first time most of us have seen snow," he said. "It would be beautiful if this weren't so tragic...
...what's inside that counts; the enthralling vistas matter less than the interior vision. That lesson is lost on Hollywood, whose idea of epic biography is a story of a big shot (Gandhi, Bugsy Siegel, Malcolm X) who got shot. Violent death is meant to lend tragic grandeur...
...court settlement this week appeared to end the six-year-old tragic drama of Paul Lozano and Dr. Margaret H. Bean-Bayog...
...fathers may lead to a certain moral blind spot in the sons. So, in judging the present emotion-filled crisis of the refugee presence in Germany, it seems to me all the more necessary to strive for an evenhandedness and objectivity in our judgment, lest yet another tragic lesson of history be re-enacted in our time -- namely, that all ethnic and religious hatreds and tragedies perpetuate and reinforce one another...
...That the tragic elements seem ineffective can't really be blamed on the company, who turn in performances ranging from serviceable to superb. The sheer number of minor characters and the indistinguishability of their names does not prevent certain actors from achieving distinction: particularly wonderful were Candy Buckley as the secretary Polixena Vasilievna Toropetskaya, Margaret Gibson as the cat-hurling actress Lyudmila Silvestrovna Priakina and Jeremy Geidt as Romanus, the conductor at the Independent Theatre. Derek Smith is not a very dynamic Maksudov; although he expresses his suicidal desperation nicely, his creative anxieties and joys are only sketchily delineated. Alvin...