Word: fatale
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...learn to live with the necessary but often confining space constraints of journalism. Quite a number of them, however, have found an antidote for the weekly squeeze: writing books. "I enjoy the long haul of a book," says TIME Art Critic Robert Hughes, author of the best-selling The Fatal Shore (Knopf), a 688-page history of his native Australia's years as a British penal colony. "Books give you a greater sense of proprietorship," says Senior Writer Otto Friedrich, whose ninth work, City of Nets (Harper & Row), details the Hollywood of the 1940s. "They are something that...
Finding the time to write is a problem. Hughes spent ten years on The Fatal Shore. "It was a constant tap dance between the magazine and the book," says he. Friedrich worked weekends for four years to finish City of Nets. Senior Editor Walter Isaacson labored late at night and during weeks off on The Wise Men: Six Friends and the World They Made (Simon & Schuster), a chronicle of the U.S. foreign policy establishment co-with former Associate Editor Evan Thomas. "Even so," says Isaacson, "it took three years...
...artifice and one that tilts toward realism. The theater's delicate conspiracy of pretense and believability can betray the most faithful filmmakers. In close-up, gestures become italicized, speeches sound like sermons, and a powerful actor can look like a ham going over the top. You can spot these fatal flaws in three plays just landing on the big screen. The sound they make is thud...
...duke speaks of many things African and animal, and warns at the end of each paragraph that such things should not be written about because publicity is fatal. Now you see the duke. Now you don't. He concludes with a flourish of suave obliteration, "If there was one species you could remove to the benefit of the earth, it would be man." Among the animal lovers, it is not unusual to encounter that misanthropic streak. The animal lovers seem to feel themselves to be just as besieged as the animals...
Commonly known as Lou Gehrig's disease, after the brilliant New York Yankee first baseman whose career and life it cut short, ALS is generally fatal. Among its better-known victims: Actor David Niven and former New York Senator Jacob Javits. Though the cause remains elusive, doctors suspect that genetic susceptibility sometimes plays a role: 5% to 10% of ALS patients have a family history of the disorder. Some researchers consider it to be an autoimmune disease, in which the victim's immune system assaults his own body tissue...