Word: fatale
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...THERE IS more to Kirkland's descent into drugs than the demands imposed on a dancer's body and emotions. Kirkland is cursed with the fatal possession of an active artistic mind and a drive for perfection. Her attempts to assert her individuality and to practice her craft, she tells us, were received almost universally with contempt by Balanchine and his disciples...
...notes, published by Dawson's biographer, Francis Watson, in the journal History Today, indicate that the royal physician gave the King two fatal injections, one consisting of three-quarters of a grain of morphine and the other of one grain of cocaine, at about 11 p.m. on Jan. 20, 1936. King George, who was 70 and had long been in failing health, died 40 minutes later. After the injections Dawson advised the editor of the Times of London to stand by for late news. Next morning a headline in the Times proclaimed, A PEACEFUL ENDING AT MIDNIGHT...
...jury received a written deposition thatThrope prepared during the advanced stage of herillness and heard excerpts from a journal shebegan keeping after she learned that her cancercould be fatal...
...movie, recording in painful detail the self-righteous Allie's trek toward a predictable tragedy, herding his long-suffering family before him as he goes. And though Harrison Ford offers a hypnotizing portrayal of a man covering despair with lunatic optimism, hysteria with bravado and rigid self-control, a fatal prejudice lingers in the audience: we do not want to spend a couple of hours with Allie here any more than we would if he were, heaven forfend, our next-door neighbor...
Twenty-three years after the fatal shots rang out in Dallas, questions about the assassination of John F. Kennedy still reverberate. The 1964 Warren Report concluded that Lee Harvey Oswald, acting alone, shot the President from the Texas School Book Depository. But 15 years later, the House Select Committee on Assassinations, while agreeing that Oswald was the murderer, decided he was most probably part of a conspiracy. Though some of the evidence leading to that finding has been discredited, conspiracy theories continue to proliferate, tracing the crime to everything from a Mafia cabal...