Word: tragically
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...raised more than $1 million for AMFAR. Cyndi Lauper's royalties from Boy Blue, about a friend who died from the disease, will go to New York City AIDS research and patient care. Says Elizabeth Taylor, a ferocious fund raiser for AIDS research: "Since we began fighting this tragic disease, the most loyal, courageous support has come from the artistic community. The irony is that AIDS has decimated the arts, and every day we lose some of the greatest talent of our time to this hideous disease...
...near tragedy. Twenty-five children in a Phillips Brooks House van tumble over a median on a Boston highway. There are no serious injuries, but the potential for an extremely tragic event is evident...
...people who had been killed in the bloody Kwangju riots in 1980. Although Lee's mother and sister struggled hysterically with student marshals, the youths eventually prevailed. The lone victim from this year's street struggles was buried among the cluster of graves that commemorate a tragic struggle of the past...
...evoke the pop-culture context of her times and a brief, provocative assessment of her talents. Parker was, after all, the one person George Bernard Shaw asked to meet at a 1926 Riviera party full of glitterati. On being introduced to the pert, poised lady, Shaw cut to her tragic core as he turned and said wonderingly to Woollcott, "I'd always thought of her as an old maid...
Begin with Al Capone, from whom all factual and fictional descendants have learned some of the elements of style. But skip all that gangster-as-tragic- hero stuff. In Robert De Niro's grandly scaled performance he is demonically expansive, our first thug celebrity. And a man who in his secret life, the life his romanticizing fans did not want to hear about, illustrates a lecture on teamwork by taking a Ruthian clout at a traitorous underling's skull with a baseball bat. What he evokes, finally, is pure horror (and maybe some black humor) but -- and the film...