Word: fatale
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Puttnam, 46, had a fatal propensity for picking fights with powerful figures. He clashed with Bill Cosby over the comedian's forthcoming film, Leonard Part 6. Cosby was so enraged that he took his next project to Warner Bros., and complained to executives of Columbia's parent, Coca-Cola, which Cosby has long served as a pitchman...
Lots, as it turns out. Take, for example, Fatal Attraction. It is your standard slasher scenario. Pheromones sing sly duets in a seemingly innocuous setting. The sex object is cute and easily seducible, but interested only in an encounter that is brief and zipless. Whereupon the rejected partner falls to obsessive brooding and proceeds down a darkening path from harassment to stalking with a deadly weapon. Uh-huh. At best it sounds like a cult classic in the making...
...Cambridge woman suffering from AIDS yesterday testified that Harvard Community Health Plan (HCHP) physicians ignored her claims that her symptoms were being caused by the fatal disease...
Victims of AIDS must not only combat the virus that causes the disease but must also fend off potentially fatal infections that overrun their weakened immune systems. A team of researchers in Boston and Los Angeles, led by Hematologist Jerome Groopman of New England Deaconess Hospital, reported in the New England Journal of Medicine last week that a genetically engineered version of a naturally occurring hormone partially restored depressed immune systems in 16 AIDS patients...
...sere with too much work, too little food and the knowledge that in 1920 in Matewan, W. Va., life is a bed of coal. Man and boy go into the mines and die; mother and wife wait for the sound of their men coming home, or for the fatal word that they won't. Life has pressed all hope out of these faces -- to smile would be a crime against remorseless nature -- though there is no free time for despair. The miners have been taught to accept their miserable lot and fear the company, which owns their houses and furniture...