This tragic case cries out for a different kind of reaction.
Mr. Cramer interviews Israelis and Palestinians and offers personal asides, snippets of history, conspiracy theories and caricatures of religion and national character to create a fun-house reflection of a region whose tragic conflicts cry out for accurate representation and serious analysis.
One of my older sisters had warned me that some parts of the book were so tragic I would cry.
Earlier theories of humour, including even those of Bergson and Freud, treated it as an isolated phenomenon, without attempting to throw light on the intimate connections between the comic and the tragic, between laughter and crying, between artistic inspiration, comic inventiveness, and scientific discovery.
"I'm always crying and doing tragic pieces, and this is a very happy piece," she said.
"I died in 'The League.' I died in 'Scream 4.' But who doesn't want a heroic, tragic death where everybody's crying?
We weren't crying over the tragic destiny of a young girl who sold flowers, but, rather, over ourselves and our country.
Is my situation so tragic that even you are crying for me?" My heart rebuked, "Oh Amin, do not be foolish!
At Kennedy's funeral in St. Patrick's Cathedral in New York City, he cried over the tragic loss of the one politician who had the potential to unite the antiwar and antipoverty movements.
By Roshan Khadivi PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti, 17 February 2010 – The first day of school in a UNICEF tent classroom was a happy day for Yolanda Senatus, 9 – and a far cry from the tragic day she had experienced just a month earlier.
