Word: fatale
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...parade yielded to another. The one that ended in fatal chaos produced, four days later, a nervous, solemn pageant of much of the world's leadership (fetching back three Administrations in the U.S. case). The procession of power on display was pharaonic. It was a complicated homage: there was Prince Charles, to represent the British, whom Sadat once plotted violently to evict. And there, of course, was Menachem Begin, something of an ex-terrorist himself, who enjoyed an immeasurably complex relationship and history with the deceased...
...around the assassination of Anwar Sadat was dense with fatal ironies. In martial finery, the Nobel Peace prizewinner sat admiring his nation's annual celebration of force; it was the anniversary of the 1973 day when Egypt plunged across the Suez Canal to break Israel's Bar Lev Line. Now death jumped out of his beloved army's line of march...
...between them Albinoni's dirge-like Adagio in G minor to signify CRITICAL MOMENTS and IMPENDING FATE. The fault lies not in the adagio, which is a fine piece of music, but its repeated use as a cue is silly and melodramatic. Yet, it is by no means a fatal flaw. To ruin Gallipoli would take something more along the order of Waltzing Mathilda for 110 minutes...
Squeers' swinish daughter Fanny, a lilt-ingfemmefatale in the Crummies' troupe, a bitter near-deaf crone called Peg. By sulking or shrugging or exacting fatal revenge, she spins three sprightly variations on the theme. Nicholas' sturdiest friend and Kate's most dastardly seducer are both played by the same actor: Bob Peck has a biathlon field day exhibiting the far poles of man's temperaments. Even John Woodvine, a bleak house of malevolence as old Ralph Nickleby, gets to sing as the star of a comic opera skit...
Although testicular cancer used to be regularly fatal, it is now often curable. Treatment may involve surgery, radiation and/or a combination of drugs, most notably cisplatin, which was first used experimentally only a decade ago. Even in severe cases, more than half the patients are cured. When the disease is detected early, the cure rate is nearly...