Word: fatale
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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This flaw has yet to prove fatal, although a poor box-out job last week did give Brooklyn College a futile final shot in regulation...
...Questioned by a Western reporter, Politburo Member Viktor Grishin allowed that Ustinov, who has not been seen in public since September, was suffering from a "sore throat." U.S. analysts did not believe Ustinov was dying, but, as one Washington Kremlinologist put it, "colds in the U.S.S.R. tend to be fatal...
Though no one expected Fae's survival to be easy, her death last Thursday night came as a surprise. The child, who was born with a fatal defect called hypoplastic left heart, had received the heart of a seven-month-old female baboon on Oct. 26 and made steady progress for the next two weeks. In a touching videotape made just four days after surgery, Baby Fae was seen yawning and stretching, seemingly a normal infant in every respect. By the second week she was no longer dependent on a supplementary oxygen supply or intravenous feeding. (Read "Baby Fae Stuns...
...brute force to win the day and make people feel good about their country. This fantasy of an all-righteous America fills movie theaters even as it fuels presidential elections. Who is Indiana Jones if not the movie-serial avatar of White House Reagan, leaping up from near fatal assaults with a wave and a joke? Who is Superman if not the Krypton Gipper, fighting for truth, justice and voluntary school prayer? At the end of a campaign year that played like one long half-time pageant, two entertaining movies arrive with a complementary pair of star figures...
...MacDonald's lawyers, who are preparing another appeal of his 1979 conviction, tried unsuccessfully to halt the telecast of Fatal Vision, claiming it would prejudice a prospective jury. Viewers may have a more legitimate beef. Fatal Vision is a dandy detective story, but it slyly skirts the real mystery: How could a man of such impeccable credentials, one so outwardly normal, be capable of these dark deeds? A tougher question for a tougher-minded TV movie...