Word: fatales
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...territorial agreement, the Genovese and Bonanno factions held a council "sitdown" to hear the dispute. Masselli argued that he had simply foreclosed on bad loans. The council absolved him of infringing on a Bonanno jurisdiction. Salvatore (Sally Blind) Frascone, a Bonanno soldier specializing in vending machines, made the fatal mistake of continuing to protest the pro-Masselli decision. Frascone was openly executed in October 1978 by Mob hit men as he got out of his car in The Bronx...
...return to the sunbaked spirit of the original Prosper Mérimée novella. Gone are the choruses of soldiers and cigarette girls, as well as most of the opera's secondary characters. Instead, the focus is on the hotheaded Basque dragoon Don José and his fatal passion for the dark-eyed gypsy Carmen. Brook has even given the work a new title: La Tragédie de Carmen...
...distinctions must be made. There are time when exaggerations are highly useful; there are times when they may be fatal. A partial list...
Palazzi said that her team was well aware of Harvard's speed and breakaway potential demonstrated in earlier games this season. For this reason, the Crusaders maintained an impenetrable full court press throughout the entire contest--a strategy which proved fatal to the Harvard offense...
...America's small-animal practice is devoted to cats. The Cornell University Feline Research Center closely examines cat problems such as heart disease, unknown a decade ago, and drug-resistant respiratory viruses. Feline leukemia, a white-blood-cell viral disease, is communicable only between cats. It is usually fatal and can quickly devastate breeding operations. Now it is battled with expensive chemotherapy procedures. Care for cats has improved so markedly that over the past 30 years the life expectancy of a house-dwelling cat has jumped to the 16-to 20-year range, an increase of six to eight...