Word: fatale
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Elliot Richardson, who was Nixon's Attorney General when he was forced out in the Saturday Night Massacre of 1973, sees his ex-boss as a President who succeeded in making the U.S. "adapt to the realities of change" but was "brought down by fatal flaws in his character." Says Richardson, who is now campaigning for a Senate seat in Massachusetts: "We all have the defects of our qualities. Nixon resented those more fortunate than he. He was insecure. But that was what propelled him to the presidency...
...moved to the high bar, Johnson failed for the first time in the competition, touching down with his hands as he landed after an otherwise respectable routine. His 9.50 was a shaky foundation, but the lowest score in each round is discarded and need not prove fatal if the rest of the team recoups. Hartung promptly notched a 9.80, and the base was firm once more. Gaylord followed with a 9.95, Daggett with a 10, and it was over...
...week's issue of the Journal of the American Medical Association, further confirms the benefits. According to its principal author, Dr. Ralph Paffenbarger, the study of 17,000 men ages 35 through 84 revealed "a direct relationship between the level of physical activity and the length of life." Fatal heart disease was found to be nearly twice as common among the most sedentary subjects as it among the most active, Concludes Dr. George Shee-the medical editor Runner's World magazine, who is a marathon runner was a friend of Fixx...
...runners, Cooper urged his friend to have his heart function evaluated with a treadmill stress test, but "for reasons known only to himself," Fixx refused. "The second most common symptom of coronary disease, after angina, is denial," observes Winslow. For long distance runners like Jim Fixx, it can be fatal...
...undivided attention to making Eddie's lemon grow. And, yes, never the twain shall meet. But the poet's point is a poor comic premise. Though Best Defense provides both stars a few funny moments and offers some promising satirical ideas, its binary construction imposes a fatal jumpiness on it. Gloria Katz and Willard Huyck, who co-wrote American Graffiti and Indiana Jones, have proved they can do better. Huyck, the director here, will have to prove on some other occasion that he has a gift for being funny on film as well as on the page...