"It is tragic that, when a celebration of sport brings unity, terrorists try to bring division".
As in a piece of classical music that passes through both tragic solemnity and brisk celebration, the dramatic qualities of Ms. Barrio's dancing arise out of her instinct for contrasts.
BOSTON — On marathon day, Boylston Street has always been a place of completion and celebration instead of tragic disruption, a straightaway toward home where medals are hung around satisfied necks, not where tourniquets are tightened around mangled legs.
The Airbus executive Rainer Ohler told Reuters: "It was supposed to be an evening of French and German celebration and appreciation after that tragic event.
"It was supposed to be an evening of French and German celebration and appreciation after that tragic event," Rainer Ohler, communications chief for plane manufacturer Airbus, who was also at the stadium, told Reuters.
What began as a tragic scene was also the site of celebration for some when a suburban Chicago woman gave birth to a baby on Wednesday morning -- while stuck in a traffic jam caused by a fatal car crash nearby.
The Christian celebration of Easter is trans-tragic, because if we miss what Jesus was struggling against, we can never experience what makes Easter "Happy".
Bowie was also part of a famous art-world hoax, the celebration of the fabulous talent and tragic fate of the artist Nat Tate.
Mr. Mandela expressed his own regret in June, during one of his 90th birthday celebrations, at what he called Zimbabwe's "tragic failure of leadership".
Although a quickie, Leigh Montville's "At the Altar of Speed: The Fast Life and Tragic Death of Dale Earnhardt" (Doubleday, $24.95) is a lively, sentimental celebration of the Nascar icon.
