Word: fatales
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...German history, his Christian Democratic/Christian Social Union alliance had won 48.8% of the popular vote, guaranteeing Kohl 244 seats in the country's 520-member Bundestag. Meanwhile, the Chancellor's coalition partner, the Free Democratic Party, led by Foreign Minister Hans-Dietrich Genscher, 55, survived a potentially fatal drop in popular esteem to win 6.9% of the vote and 34 Bundestag seats, thereby providing Kohl with a sturdy governing majority. The opposition Social Democratic Party, led by Hans-Jochen Vogel, 57, received only 38.2% and 193 seats, its worst showing since 1961. West Germany's newest political...
...members of the British Voluntary Euthanasia Society. When the famed 77-year-old writer (Darkness at Noon), who suffered from Parkinson's disease, decided two weeks ago that his life was intolerable, he reportedly swallowed the finely calibrated dose of drugs prescribed by the society. Sharing the fatal potion was his wife Cynthia, 55, who apparently believed she could not endure life without him. When police found the Koestlers in their London town house, husband and wife were seated in an upstairs room, in a macabre tableau of family death...
...ordeal of facing possible death (when she was hospitalized. Sagan believed she had cancer) seems to have changed her writing greatly-indeed far more than a near fatal car accident which put her in a coma for three days when she was 20. The Painted Lady, just translated into English, bears little resemblance in form or outlook to her earlier 12 novels...
...Marshall and Jessica Beels as two of "the guardians"--superhumans who guide the others in their choices--add fabulously ludicrous life to the proceedings with each appearance. The third is more imposing: Patrick Bradford fills the role with commanding presence but delivers many of his lines too quickly, a fatal flaw in a character whose main trait is calm control...
...Anthony Demmer (James Russo), a tirading troglodyte in a three-piece suit who has made a pathetic slave of the billionaire. While muttering such maxims as "Truth is a dead man's secret," Angel zigzags through encounters with craven executives, junkies and a malevolent dwarf bartender toward a fatal rooftop rendezvous with Demmer...