The Twin Towers of NYC took years of sweat, intelligence, time and effort to build and were destroyed in a few tragic hours.
And, despite the number of times we must declare it, #BlackLivesMatter. 1) In this tragic, disheartening hour, we embrace #Charleston and the #EmanuelAME family and community.
Last night, as the details of Williams' tragic final hours and battle with severe depression were revealed in a preliminary coroner's report, a close friend of the family told of his financial worries.
Consider Ayelet Waldman's "Red Hook Road," in which a young couple meet a tragic end hours after taking their vows, or, in a more playful register, Ali Smith's "There but for the," which sends a dinner party spinning out of control when a guest locks himself in a room and refuses to leave.
Based on the tragic half-hour sitcom life I'm currently the star of, perhaps I'm doing it all wrong?
Yet perhaps in the long reckoning both sides will find they had, in the unspeakably tragic phrase of the hour, more in common than that which divides us.
After condensing his tragic existence into an hour of depraved memories for the interviewer, the shackled Mr. History makes his way back to his lonely cell to await his pending execution.
Apart from "A Night to Remember," movies and television have tended to ignore the Carpathia-Californian drama, preferring to use the Titanic as a lavish backdrop for tragic passions and eleventh-hour lessons about the redemptive value of love.
Although recent headlines might indicate otherwise, the owner, the trainer, the jockey and the groom of Eight Belles aren't entitled to a deeper sadness or sense of loss than, say, the handlers of the Hack Rein, an 0-for-7 maiden who "broke down in upper stretch and was vanned off" in the third race at Evangeline Downs in Louisiana, barely one hour after the tragic Run for the Roses.
Dmitri Shostakovich lived through the darkest hours of the tragic Soviet experiment, and his music spoke from its void with unparalleled impact.
