Word: fatale
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
What most people don't realize is that it almost never happens. In a particularly bad year, as many as 100 people may be attacked by sharks. Of those attacks, a small minority--15% at most--prove fatal. Far more people are killed by bees, poisonous snakes and elephants, as well as bathtub falls and lightning strikes. It's much more dangerous to drive to the beach than to venture into the water once you get there...
...fatal blast occurred at 6:45 p.m. and shot flames into the air, sending four injured persons--Com Electric employees John Collins, Joe Crawler and Jim Cardenelli and a police officer whose name was not released--to Mass. General Hospital...
...factory in Mexico, or wealthy parents in the Philippines, or a wife and daughter--the ones in the photo he would pass around that he got from who knows where. But by last April, when police say he started a cross-country killing spree that climaxed in the fatal shooting of Versace, all his worlds were collapsing. His last rich guy had dropped him. He was gaining so much weight that few would give him a second look. He might have discovered he had the AIDS virus...
...early talkies the camera could hardly move, but Dudley Murphy's Black and Tan Fantasy (1929) daringly depicted the Duke Ellington composition in bold chiaroscuro, then used woozy prismatic images to show that a star dancer (the gorgeous Fredi Washington) is feeling ill before she goes on for a fatal final number. Fred Waller directed Ellington's Symphony in Black: A Rhapsody of Negro Life (1934) with artful lighting of black laborers, and moody shadows caressing the young Billie Holiday. Aubrey Scotto set most of A Rhapsody in Black and Blue (1932) in a cleaning man's dream kingdom, Jazzmania...
AMADO CARRILLO FUENTES Call it the fatal face-lift: druglord dies during plastic surgery intended to fool cops...