Word: fatalism
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...expert in sex therapy called the book "technically instructive"; another doctor, however, warned that the author's "circus-trick" love-making techniques could prove fatal to the weak of heart. The object of their testimony: a raunchy paperback autobiography by Porn Queen Linda Lovelace, star of Deep Throat. After deliberating for nearly five hours at London's Old Bailey courthouse, a jury of nine men and three women found the British publisher of the book, titled Inside Linda Lovelace, innocent of obscenity charges. Linda declared herself "ecstatic," but others were less pleased. Groused Labor M.P. Neil Kinnock, when...
...court, Miller and some friends-including Novelist William Styron and Director Mike Nichols-hired a new lawyer and a private detective and persuaded the New York Times to look into the case. Last week a story by Times Reporter John Corry detailed Reilly's movements on the fatal night. According to various witnesses (not all of whom, inexplicably, were called at the trial), the boy left a church meeting at about 9:40, dropped off a friend at 9:45, then made the five-minute drive to his own home where he says he found his mother...
...this is the way You treat Your friends, no wonder You don't have many!" St. Therese of Lisieux was a sickly 19th century nun who died young and unknown. Her principal virtue was an awesome courage in the face of her long and excruciating fatal illness. Similarly, the church has sainted kings and rebels against kings, noblemen and tramps, virgins and mothers, activists and hermits...
...traffic in some of the nation's air space, it should be no surprise that such near accidents occur. What is surprising, given the chances for mechanical and human failure both on the ground and in the cockpit, is that there are so few collisions. Of 81 fatal accidents suffered by airlines during the past decade, only seven involved collisions...
...strong supporting cast. Patrick O'Neill's Doyle is a pitiful yet somewhat ominous figure, and Rebecca Landrum as his frowzy and frustrated wife manifests a pathetic willfulness in her pursuit of Miss Lonelyhearts that is immensely effective. Together, they make an appropriately ill-matched couple, a fatal reification of those pain-filled letters which are Miss Lonelyhearts' particular curse...