The brothers' tragic story offers a rare glimpse into a part of Mexico's drug war that gets little notice.
Although rarely acknowledged, ODB's tragic life offers lessons into the complexity of black existence and the United States' turbulent history of hardwired social inequality.
Ruins, like tragic drama, offer occasions of sweet-and-sour catharsis.
One tragic lesson offered by "The World of Yesterday" is that, even in a culture where misinformation has become omnipresent, where an angry base, supported by disparate, well-heeled interests, feels empowered by the relentless lying of a charismatic leader, the center might still hold.
"I would say that there were and are still a lot of really kind of dramatic things in my life that happened over the last year and a half, both great and kind of tragic," Boyce offered during a phone call from her apartment last week.
He's also like the messenger or chorus in Greek tragedy, who is involved but also distant from the tragic incidents and offers commentary.
Pratibha Ray's Oriya novel Mahamoha (1997, "Great Lust") portrays an independent and nonconformist Ahalya as a tragic heroine, who offers herself to Indra so that he can fulfil his lust and she her womanhood.
It holds a special place in their hearts because in addition to the prerequisite a tragic murder it also offers a crowd-pleasing combination of creepy location, abandonment, rumors of ghosts, dilapidation, and a shrouding of mystery that neighbors unwittingly maintain to this day.
"We are deeply saddened to learn of this tragic incident and offer our condolences to the Ma family," Apple said in a statement.
The play, by Bryony Lavery ("Frozen"), looks at the allure of the sport and the tragic possibilities that it offers.
