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"There was a tragic element to his life story," waxed the New York Times . Cisneros is the second ex-Clinton Cabinet officer to be indicted--following Agriculture Secretary Mike Espy--and would have been the third, according to pundits, if Commerce Secretary Ron Brown hadn't died in a plane crash.
Though the Globe doesn't say so, it was surely an end that was both tragic and brave.
That the people with whom Brandon feels most at home would kill him if they knew his true gender is the movie's most tragic irony--and the one that lifts it out of the realm of gay-martyr hagiography and into something more complex and irreducible: a meditation on the irrelevance of gender.
He's so frightened of communicating with his children that he has to caricature himself . The source of his comedy is also what makes him tragic.
Rothko's triumphantly tragic career resembles what Robert Lowell called the "generic life" of his own generation of poets.