Word: fatales
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...sale of his works that financed his early efforts at art criticism. In 1964 he moved to Port'Ercole, Italy, where, he says, "a permanent fixation on Italian painting from the birth of Masaccio to the death of the younger Tiepolo took over." The experience proved fatal to Hughes' artistic career. He renounced painting because, he says, "having been to Arezzo to see the Piero della Francesca frescoes of the Legend of the True Cross, I realized that I could never in conscience give my own work a decent review." After nine years of free-lance writing he came...
...almost every one of its 14 years as an independent nation, Bangladesh has been buffeted by fatal storms and floods and famine. The latest tempest, however, was the worst since 1970, when another killer cyclone took more than half a million lives in the same area...
...government also failed to inspire confidence in the immediate aftermath of the catastrophe. Even as local newspapers were estimating the death toll at more than 15,000, Dhaka by week's end officially reported just over 2,000 fatal- ities. At the national cyclone center in the capital, authorities simply said that they had lost touch with many of the islands and that there was little hope for their residents...
Colonel Mustard in the library with the wrench. As any child detective can attest, guessing the murderer, the place of death and the fatal weapon makes Clue a humdinger of a whodunit and a longtime Parker Brothers' best-selling board game. Never known to let a best seller get away, Hollywood has just begun filming a movie based on the game. The first clues fans will want, of course, are who plays the familiar players: Lesley Ann Warren (Miss Scarlett), Martin Mull (Colonel Mustard), Madeline Kahn (Mrs. White), Michael McKean (Mr. Green), Christopher Lloyd (Professor Plum) and Eileen Brennan...
Following the Ohio episode, Maryland's crisis may have dealt a fatal blow to private insurance in the rest of the country. While 83% of U.S. thrifts are federally insured, 30 states allow at least some of their banks, thrifts or credit unions to rely on private coverage. Many institutions that are small or in a hurry to grow prefer local insurance funds because they tend to be less strict than federal regulators. Old Court, for example, was able to boast money-market accounts with interest rates of up to 11%, compared with about 8.5% offered by federally insured thrifts...