Word: fatale
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...narrator Cecelia (Micol Guidelli) was a little girl in a flower print dress, and the Germany were slowly retreating through the fields of Tuscany under the onslaught of the Allies. The town of San Martino has been marked for mining by the Germans--each house crucified with a fatal slash of green paint--and the inhabitants have been ordered to gather in the Cathedral while their tiny community is to be blown up. A group of men, women, and children, under the leadership of the grizzled elder Galvano (Omero Antonutti), decide to break away from the huddled, frightened villagers...
...decorations in July. It is no consolation that both Jimmy Carter and George McGovern officially began their long-shot bids even earlier. Candidates used to attract little press attention at this point in the campaign and thus could test themes and sharpen positions with slight risk of committing a fatal gaffe. This time around, however, they are already in the hot glare of television cameras. That kind of exposure encourages rhetorical posturing and, over the long haul, may discourage voter interest...
...campaign will have to come from his "new ideas." Most important, the scrutiny given the front runner will magnify and occasionally distort his campaign. Mondale is the man to beat: any victories will be viewed as unremarkable, any losses considered big upsets, and any stumbles treated as potentially fatal...
...1950s, Thomas observed that "medicine was turning into a science." The discovery and use of a host of drugs such as sulfanilamide and antibiotics meant that many otherwise fatal diseases were easily curable. A new optimism swept through the profession; doctors became "convinced, overnight, that nothing lay beyond reach for the future. Medicine was off and running...
...which harbors an ever-increasing number of probable carcinogens. The national death rate due to cancer has risen steadily since 1930, according to a 1982 American Cancer Society report. Although this rise in the incidence of lethal cancer could be attributable to medical advances which have conquered other previously fatal diseases, epidemiological studies point to another explanation, showing a clear correlation between the degree of urbanization and mortality for some of the major types of cancer in each area...