Word: fatale
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Botticelli, Monet, Degas, Picasso and Pollock. The chief complaint of Fogg officials is that they don't have enough gallery space to accommodate their ever-growing collection of acquisitions and their plight is illustrated in this slightly cluttered exhibition. But too much of a good thing hasn't proved fatal to any Fogg-goers lately, so pause on Quincy St. and gaze for a while at the Fogg's proudest possessions. Summer hours are 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. weekdays, closed weekends...
Last week, in a 7 to 2 decision, the Supreme Court sidestepped the constitutional problems in the case, but it dealt what dissenting Justice Thurgood Marshall called "a fatal blow" to most of the means of enforcing the Civil Rights Act in religious cases. The majority decision, written by Byron White, said that many employees had "strong but perhaps nonreligious reasons for not working on weekends," and that the law cannot be construed to "require an employer to discriminate against some employees in order to enable others to observe their Sabbath." White said there was no objection to employers...
Trainer Billy Turner prepared Seattle Slew for the Triple Crown quest with a cool deliberation that caused more second-guessing than usual along the backstretch. He purposely raced him little, harnessing his show of speed to guard against the fatal misstep that stalks the big, fragile-legged thoroughbreds. Slew's schedule was matched with equally undemanding workouts. Horsemen were quick to point out that he was slightly "short"-not in peak form-for the Kentucky Derby. After that race, Cruguet dawdled briefly up the track before riding into the winner's circle, because Slew was winded. Said...
Made in East Germany, this bleak, elegiac tale suggests that lies like Jacob's may be a necessary, if sometimes fatal condition of life. A young ghetto girl can sleep with her lover only by pretending that the lover's roommate is deaf and dumb-then, after the roommate is dead, by pretending that he is still there. Jacob (movingly played by Czechoslovak Actor Vlastimil Brodsky) has no choice but to indulge the illusions of his adopted niece, who is entranced when he slips around a corner and mimics a radio broadcast, complete with an interview with Winston...
...Haldeman visit is relatively brief; it is the "other states of mind" that preoccupy Mee. He reflects on his Midwestern Catholic boyhood, his adolescent, nearly fatal struggle against polio - an illness that drove him into intellectualism as a kind of self-defense. He describes his career at Harvard and his two marriages, both of which cracked up. It was during the Cuban missile crisis that Mee decided to leave home: "If I was to die, I told myself, I did not wish to die with my first wife." He loved the time for its vivid gaiety: "I thought...