Word: fatale
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Nonsense, ruled the state Supreme Court and a U.S. District Court. But the U.S. Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals found a "fatal defect" in the organization of the grand jury because "the basis of selection was race." Well attuned to local mores, the appellate court stressed the "somewhat paradoxical" effect of such selection-the wide spread Southern phenomenon that fearful or complaisant Negro jurors have a tendency to be especially harsh on Negro defendants...
...feels very close to Hassan; he says Hassan seems to dictate portions of his novels. Vying to usurp Hassan's dominion over earth are lesser but formidable rival gods, including 1) the lecherous ones of Venus, who are dosing man with the Orgasm Drug to draw him into fatal orgies; 2) the totalitarian of the Crab Galaxy, who have ready giant ovens to bake humans into insectlike critters in a hivelike commune; and 3) the plain old hophead gods of Uranus, who have become radioactive themselves and are plotting to frizzle Earthmen with their own radioactivity...
...audiences tend to watch the performance more than the person, and the actors are all too conscious of this. They get isolated laughs with the delivery of individual lines, instead of letting their humorousness emerge slowly. In a comedy of characters, rather than one of wit, this can be fatal. Darryl Palmer's Medvedenko, for example, never becomes more than a caricatured schoolteacher: we never feel his pain...
Would he really do it? "France will look twice before making a fatal move," declared Le Monde, pointing out that thanks to the Treaty of Rome, French industrialists have broken with a long tradition of protectionism and have been building industrial strength on a multinational scale-the only way to meet American competition. Yet Premier Georges Pompidou was quoted by friends as saying, "Nous partirons." He could of course be talking of a limited departure-perhaps absence from sessions of The Six for a few weeks...
When the kidneys fail to work and there is no hope of starting them up again, the resulting uremia is fatal in about three weeks. A hospital would seem to be the only place where victims could get adequate care. Hundreds of hospitals are equipped with artificial kidneys which are costly to install, even more costly to operate. For each of the 100 U.S. patients who regularly get lengthy treatments, usually twice a week, the cost is $10,000 a year. But now the artificial kidney is moving out of the hospital, into the home. It promises to cut costs...