Word: tragically
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...announcement, it surely sent shudders deepest through locker rooms, high schools and inner-city homes across the country where teenagers idolize the smiling big man from Lansing, Mich., who managed to rise from a family of 12 to become a role model around the world. "Clearly this is tragic," said Norm Nickens, chairman of the National Minority AIDS Council. "But we couldn't ask for a better spokesman...
...underscore the bare ugly truths of the Tyrone family, not only does Gammons rearrange the plot, but he also excises the text. This powerful interpretation brings home the way that each member of this family has acted and been acted upon to create a collectively tragic fate. Hardcore cynicism and hopelessness gain prominence through Gammons's textual revisions. He deletes lines like "all I care about is to see you get well" and "she loves you as dearly as ever mother loved a son." Characters are tightened up rarely silly or mushy...
Although O'Neil described Long Day's Journey as the story of the "four haunted Tyrones," rarely have they been presented as four equally tragic protagonists. Jamie or Tyrone are often remembered as the main protagonist due to legendary performances by Jason Robards, Jr. Interestingly, Gammons has chosen to put Edmund and his disease (all references to consumption are removed, his disease now presumably AIDS) center stage, but Winsome Brown certainly merits the primacy accorded her character...
...loved Magic all my life, and this won't change that," a ten-year old kid told a television reporter. That is the essence of this deeply tragic event. Magic's instincts of selflessness and generosity prevailed over all other human responses to this devastating revelation, and as such, proved Magic to be as great a hero, as worthy an idol as we could ever hope to find in a public figure...
...evaluate the Gorbachev years. They seem to forget that the events that have so drastically changed the face of world politics since 1989 would not have happened in the particular way they did without the president of the Soviet Union and his remarkable approach. To name Gorbachev a "tragic, almost pathetic figure," as one of the so-called experts, Morton Zuckerman of U.S. News and World Report, recently did, is a historical blunder caused by mediocre reasoning...