Word: fatalism
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Although Vest emphasized that drinking at MIT was less prevalent than at other campuses,--students binge drink at about half the national average of 44 percent--there is still a fatal potential...
...protective function" privilege that excuses his officers from testifying in court. And, if only for effect, Administration lawyers have included in their legal briefs rare photos showing officers, acting on John F. Kennedy's orders, jumping off the rear bumper of his car just minutes before it entered its fatal swing through downtown Dallas in November 1963. Though Johnson's ruling on Merletti's claim is still weeks away, her decision is regarded as more pivotal to Starr's probe than her ruling last week voiding Executive-privilege claims for White House aides Bruce Lindsey and Sidney Blumenthal. "The Secret...
...crowded with them as it is with stray pets, worn tires, and missing keys." He is a saint maybe, like one of the exceedingly normal yet extraordinarily courageous and strong characters who populate the works of Anne Tyler; a modern day tragic hero whose Achilles' heel and fatal flaw is a penchant for liquor. Lou Sloane's abrupt and cruel parting from Billie rouses Hex from his lackadaisical work as a publicist. Hex is the only other person who can interpret his mother's "syllabic puree;" he knows that Lou has stuck him 'with her, yet he gradually comes...
WRONGFULLY ACCUSED (Aug. 7). Geezers can be goofs too. Leslie Nielsen reunites with Pat Proft (who also worked on Naked Gun), for a parody of 63 recent crime thrillers. Fine, but aren't those films their own insidious parodies? And didn't Fatal Instinct send up the genre back...
...what had just been shown. Local stations were inundated with phone calls; station managers, already aghast at what their cameras had captured, broadcast apologies and toll-free numbers for viewers to call for psychological counseling. Says Larry Perret, news director for KCBS-TV, which pulled away just before the fatal shot was fired: "With all due respect to my competitors, you couldn't have anticipated this. This was a legitimate news story. You got a guy on the freeway closing two of L.A.'s most populated interchanges...