Word: fatales
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Roberto goes over the cliffe with the sports car. Bruno is tossed safely aside, just in the nick of time. As Bruno views Roberto's corpse, he is reminded of the value of friendship and human beings. And Roberto's death reminds us, since the playboy's life proved fatal to him, "above all, to thine own self be true." You know The Easy Life is a good film when this last scene seems subtle, powerful, and dramatic...
...Cornell hockey team dealt Harvard's Ivy League title hopes a possibly fatal blow last night, scoring twice in the first period and hanging on to beat the Crimson...
...mourn. There are Quentin's two wives, both of whom finally find him "cold and remote." The first, Louise, is Miller's first wife, Mary Grace Slattery. The second is Maggie, a switchboard operator who becomes a celebrated performer only to succumb to sexual obsessions, hysteria, drink, and fatal sleeping-pills--Marilyn Monroe, of course. Quentin's third big love is Holga, an archaeologist from Salzburg who helps Quentin to confront the Nazis' genocide camps (twice she states, "No-one they [the Nazis] didn't kill can be innocent again," and Quentin muses, "No man lives who would not rather...
...original American Puritans understood passion as well as human frailty: in Plymouth in the 1670s, while ordinary fornicators were fined ?10, those who were engaged had to pay only half the fine. But a fatal fact about Puritanism, which led to its ever-increasing narrowness and decline, was its conviction that virtue could be legislated by the community, that human perfection could be organized on earth...
...Mexico to get a divorce from her estranged husband and to marry the man who has loved her for years. Blomberg, the woman and her intended husband travel by day coach from Boston to Mexico City. The night after they get there, the girl suffers a final, fatal heart attack...