Word: fatalism
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Supporting Actor, Best Set Design and Best Sound, Network began bearing down with Best Supporting Actress (Beatrice Straight), Best Screenplay, Best Actress (Faye Dunaway) and Best Actor (Peter Finch, who, as a knowledgeable friend of ours in Minneapolis put it, won on the death angle, since he suffered a fatal heart attack several months after the picture had been finished). But the evening finally went to a fairy-tale called Rocky, which, like three very dry martinis, makes you feel good. But Rocky takes much longer. Relevance had taken a prearranged dive...
...plants, Dr. Rappaccini plots the second genesis. He has given life to new species of herbs more deadly than hemlock. Each shrub he cultivates is a hybrid of poison and medicinal, each plant developed as a result of his devotion to science, Dr. Rappaccini's most perfect--and most fatal--creation is his daughter, the beautiful Beatriz. She is a symbol of man's inventiveness to rival Pygmalia. The only mother Beatriz can claim is Curiosity; she knows she belongs body and soul to her father. Her breath poison, her tears acid, Beatriz lures the new Adam, a student named...
...than powerful, since any necessary connection between the two crises, a connection which Fitzgerald's notes hint at, is never even suggested in the movie. The film merely ends in a crush of disaster, with DeNiro--who, on top of everything else, is scheduled to die soon of a fatal disease--walking dismally into blackness...
...they'll never give up. They will all willingly die for their cause. When you are in the Family, you have no free will. You are totally controlled. I saw it happen to me. It no longer becomes a question of how intelligent a person is, because curiosity is fatal...
...list of diseases that have been troublesome to Americans lately, swine flu ranks somewhere below spring fever. Only three cases have been discovered since the flu-related death last year of a soldier at Fort Dix, N.J., and none was fatal. In fact, the massive swine flu vaccine program proved to be more of a threat than the disease: it has been implicated in nearly 400 cases of a little-understood, usually temporary paralysis called Guillain-Barré syndrome. Yet last week, while acknowledging the risks, federal authorities ordered a partial resumption of the on-again, off-again swine flu program...