Word: fatale
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...dealing with such esoteric issues is especially prone to demagoguery. Insofar as SALT II was a symbol of Jimmy Carter's stewardship of American foreign and defense policy, it barely stood a chance. That was the linkage-the "fatal flaw"-that mortally wounded the treaty. The Soviet invasion of Afghanistan was the coup...
...WINNING A NECK CLEVERLY), and was invited to recuperate from the trial at the palace of the Maharajah of Jhopur. Still, the smell persisted. Thirty years after the crime, Fox persuaded three people to talk about the murder confessions Broughton had made to them before he took a fatal dose of morphine in 1942, 17 months after his acquittal...
...Apocalypse Now and One from the Heart, it is refreshing to come upon a Coppola film that is, bless it, only a movie. Alas, The Outsiders is not quite a good one. Because it falls in with the undulating rhythm of the life of its heroes, for whom a fatal fight and a quiet night have almost equal importance, the picture never manages to reach the peaks of satisfying Hollywood melodrama. Nor are the greasers romanticized enough to be seen as avatars of the outlaw lovers in Frank Borzage's Moonrise or Nicholas Ray's They Live...
...Angeles police custody. But Smith, who had been with Belushi all night, was not charged with any crime. Two months later, the tabloid National Enquirer reportedly paid her $15,000 for an interview. The paper quoted her (inaccurately, she claims) as saying that she had given Belushi the fatal hypodermic dose...
...suggestion that Belushi was drugged against his will, California criminal lawyers believe that the murder case against Smith will be hard to make. But there is a precedent: in 1980 the state court of appeals upheld the second-degree murder conviction of a man who had furnished an unintentionally fatal overdose of heroin to a friend. "California," said Los Angeles Attorney Robert Sheahen, who has represented Smith, "stands virtually alone in making this kind of thing murder." Says Smith: "They're trying to find a scapegoat...