Word: fatale
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Back from London and her near fatal battle with double pneumonia, Cinemactress Elizabeth Taylor, 29, headed west for "a few months in the sun." Her left leg-much punctured from intravenous feedings, blood transfusions and antibiotic injections-was swathed in bandages, her tracheotomy wound covered by a high collar. Stoicized Liz: "I'll have my necklaces redesigned a little higher to cover up the scar-sort of diamond and pearl Band-Aids...
Apparently there had been a minor wave of food thefts during the past several weeks, and the policemen were alerted to watch the Divinity School carefully. The fatal bullet was preceded by warning shots--one to five, according to various accounts...
Jane Doe, 27, was pregnant when she was admitted to the hospital in 1957 and found to have high blood pressure, heart disease, overactive adrenal glands, and a mysterious, often fatal blood condition called toxemia of pregnancy. Doctors decided to end the pregnancy, but before they could operate on Mrs. Doe. she had a stroke that left her partly paralyzed. Then her baby was stillborn. She still has severe right-side paralysis, heart disease, kidney damage, impairment of speech and emotional instability. It is Dr. Buxton's judgment as a physician that another pregnancy might easily kill...
...Tone Rolls. Someone else might well have been Bobby Darin. The incumbent, born Walden Robert Cassotto in The Bronx in 1936, contracted a near-fatal case of rheumatic fever at the age of eight. His father, described by Darin as a small-scale gangster, died before Bobby was born. Supported by his mother's relief money, he grew up in one of Manhattan's toughest and poorest neighborhoods, steadily refused membership in district gangs, studied hard and learned to play the drums, won admission to the excellent Bronx High School of Science. During vacations, he picked up show...
...temptation to discuss a great theorist abstractly, and to capitalize on the jargon which has grown up around him, has proved fatal to many critics. Any thoughtful discussion of Brecht must actually concern itself with the practicing playwright, and I will attempt to discuss The Caucasian Chalk Circle in relation to Brecht's broader accomplishment. This play enjoyed a successful run at the University last fall, and in the volume under discussion, represents to Bentley a peak of the author's accomplishment...