Word: fatale
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...They were to be made of wood because aircraft aluminum was in short supply. Kaiser brought Hughes and the Government into the project, then eventually dropped out himself. Hughes' commitment to the plane was passionate. Even after the war ended he pushed on with construction, despite a nearly fatal crash in 1946 when he was at the controls of another aircraft, his XF-11 reconnaissance plane. The next year he told a Senate committee investigating his war contracts that he would leave the country if the Goose...
Mostly, the contents of these books are beyond a dreamer's imagination. Teen-agers with guns kill civilians on order, on whim, on dope. Rage explodes in all directions. Barracks arguments escalate into fatal shootouts. Corpses are mutilated for sport and trophies. A dead man is not allowed to fall but kept dancing grotesquely on a stream of bullets...
...were never opponents, never contestants in a common debate. It is doubtful that either would have known if their work was related. Yet, when Mendel's work was revived in 1900, his experiments dealt Darwinism a nearly fatal blow. The popularity of Darwin's thought was already on the decline when Mendelism came into favor, but the monk's researches seemed to influence greater reproach for his theory. In 1907 a biologist named Vernon Grant had written a book citing dozens of objections to Darwin's theory and offering 24 alternate explanations of evolution. Many of his ideas sprang directly...
ODDLY ENOUGH, if Rashke has committed a fatal flaw in his book, it is in carrying this attribute too far. In his effort to sound authoritative, Rashke gets bogged down in miniscule details of little significance. Into a book already saturated with facts and figures, Rashke throws in the bills charged by wrecking companies years before, the shape and size of folders and notebooks, and the life histories of individuals Silkwood met for two hours. In a book devoid of details, these facts would add realism. Instead, they make Rashke's book read at times like a lawyer's brief...
...green and lush as the rolling hills of Ireland, where the film was shot. Nigel Terry (Arthur) is no Sean Connery, the parfit gentil knight of Robin and Marian, but he passes persuasively from innocence to kingship to the realization that immortality can be won only through a fatal joust with his son and slayer. Cherie Lunghi too closely resembles a Covent Garden flower child to bring Guenevere to mature life, but her callow modernity wreathes Excalibur in later ideals of post-courtly love. Nicholas Clay makes an athletic Lancelot: he could be a dashing soldier of fortune...