Word: fatale
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...them." In the parables that follow this shocking statement, a former circus strongman discovers his family murdered by London toughs, a case of schizophrenia mirrors a fractured universe, a dragon-size dog ritually feeds on the residents of a small village, and in the year 2020, time becomes a fatal disease. A recurrent theme is that the world has lost its grip, "has been to so many parties, been in so many fights, lost its keys, had its handbag stolen, drunk too much...
AIDS is an disease which attacks the body'simmune system and is often fatal. It spreadsthrough the exchange of bodily fluids.Increasingly police forces in large cities havebegun to use protective devices when dealing withindividuals, such as the homeless and homosexuals,considered to be at high risk of having thedisease...
...nation, the Reagan Administration has been paralyzed by a debate about whether to advocate widespread, mandatory testing for antibodies to the AIDS virus. Secretary of Education William Bennett has been outspoken in arguing that testing is the only way to track and ultimately contain the spread of the fatal virus, which has been detected in nearly 36,000 Americans but may already have infected as many as 1.5 million. Opposing him have been medical professionals led by Surgeon General C. Everett Koop, who contends that mandatory testing would have the undesirable effect of causing many possible carriers of the virus...
...Gender Theory and the Yale School," she cites by name established figures such as J. Hillis Miller, Harold Bloom, and Geoffrey Hartmann for their complacent refusal to consider the significance of gender for contemporary hermeneutics--the fatal blindspot, she observes, in their theories...
...James. If only PBS and C-SPAN deem your performance worthy of coverage, it is cooler not to whine about it. Instead, haul out the quote books and show off your erudition for this upscale audience. Here, for example, is a useful phrase from The Spoils of Poynton: "The fatal futility of Fact...