Word: fatale
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Fatal Obituary...
...INTENSITY and value are the keys to any understanding of how color operates in art, and it is the fatal flaw of this show that it gives no clear definition of those three words. Very simply, hue is what shade-blue, green, red, yellow. Value refers to how close to white or black the hue is, and intensity is how pure the hue is-how free it is from dilution with white or black...
...Damascus Road. The strongest charges against Stans were that he had committed perjury before the grand jury while testifying about the Vesco affair. To explain away two of the counts, Bonner reminded the jury that at the time he had testified Stans had been desperately worried about the near fatal illness of his wife. Bonner inquired of the jurors if they had ever paid a hospital visit to someone they loved who was on the edge of death. "Do you think that would affect you?" he asked...
...Giscard maintains his momentum and outruns Chaban, the Gaullist Party will suffer a serious and perhaps fatal setback. "Then we will bury General de Gaulle for a second time," says Gaullist Minister of the Interior Jacques Chirac. In the runoff, as the sole candidate of the center and right, Giscard would be favored to top Mitterrand. The current campaign, however, has had several surprises. Thus, no one rules out the long-odds possibility that Mitterrand may just get a majority on May 5, winning the presidency and making the Giscard-Chaban duel on the right an empty exercise...
Harvard objected to the formula for two reasons. First, any formula might jeopardize the tax-exempt status of the University's property; and, secondly, any precedent set by Harvard could be harmful or even fatal to other non-profit organizations that could not afford to make such high payments...