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...society. But this play is also the engaging story of one author's attempts to give voice to her own emotional concerns. And the success with which Frye and the rest of the cast reproduce Hansberry's life only makes the brevity of that life seem all the more tragic...
...city's tragic transformation began in the 1950s, when an economic boom in Panama City diverted investment and, later, government spending from Colon. But after Noriega was overthrown, there was hope that Colon might begin to recover. More than 80 residents, most of them unarmed civilians, were killed in the U.S. invasion, but even that toll seemed an acceptable price for Colon's rehabilitation. "We thought maybe this government would remember us," says Father Carlos Ariz, bishop of Colon. "Instead the government says it has no way to help...
...ultimatum, backed by a genuine readiness to fight, and Saddam might not believe it even then. So the U.S. has to prepare for war. Anyone with a shred of human feeling can say that only with a suppressed scream of fear and pain. The U.S. confronts a bitter, tragic, even ghastly necessity. But, this time, it is a necessity that there is no honorable way to avoid...
Each came to a tragic end. John spent his last years caricaturing himself in films. Lionel was ignored by the studio he helped build. In 1954, when he was terminally ill, his unused dressing room came to the attention of Metro- Goldwyn-Mayer. "There was a shortage: James Cagney needed quarters for his current film. Consent to dismantle Lionel's suite, store his belongings and reassign the bungalow was granted in a memo of November 15." Lionel died that evening. Peters notes dryly, "MGM couldn't even wait for its most durable star to stop breathing." In old age Ethel...
...curiously passive and remote. (His role is described in phrases like "Paley agreed instantly" and "Paley loved the idea.") Smith's workmanlike prose fails to give her main character the fascination of either his triumphs or his flaws. It is, perhaps, the quintessential TV story. Not heroic epic, not tragic drama; just a good soap opera...