Word: fatale
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Chicano Rock 'n' Roller Ritchie Valens, was last summer's surprise hit, earning $55 million at the North American box office. Maybe Hispanic film artists would prefer to believe in La Bamba's rags-to-riches story. But they know how even that film ends: with a fatal plane crash...
Manigat's fatal error may have been to shift the powerful Colonel Prosper Avril from the head of the presidential guard to an insignificant desk job. Avril, 50, a veteran schemer with close ties to the old Duvalier regime, is thought to have engineered last week's coup. Promoted to brigadier general after the takeover, Avril is widely believed to be the guiding force behind the military regime...
...extremely wealthy man who has gone to a gambling casino for a long binge, gotten hopelessly drunk, wasted a great deal of his money and awakened with a severe hangover to find that he has married a woman who is a complete stranger. The man's condition is scarcely fatal, but scarcely one to be desired...
...engineering elegance cannot mask what may turn out to be fatal problems in conception and execution. Jobs' original idea was to use mass-production techniques to make the power of $50,000 computer "workstations" like those used by top engineers and industrial designers available to anyone for the cost of a personal computer -- from $2,000 to $5,000. He spoke movingly of creating low-cost "learning environments," in which university students, using computer simulations, would have access to the world's most advanced technologies. "You'd offer a physics student a personal linear accelerator or a ride...
During the past quarter of a century I often fooled muself that indeed, I would participate in the dream that those years seemed to promise. The consequences were tragic and on occasions nearly fatal...