Word: fatalism
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Under a tour title of “Better Live than Dead,” Tommy Lee, Mick Mars, Vince Neil and Nikki Sixx are celebrating their victory over drug overdoses, STDs and near fatal car accidents with a three month national tour promoting their compilation album. This act and the CD itself are simply further self-aggrandizements of a band built entirely on overt personal satisfaction without any musical foundation. The group makes it very clear as to why they got into rock and roll in the pedophilia-proud lyrics of their anthem...
...loss dealt a fatal blow to the team’s chance to advance to postseason play for the first time since...
...constant contact with the Holy Father. Though some veteran Vatican watchers complain that Navarro-Valls spins the world about the Pope's physical condition - he insisted that John Paul was steadily recovering last week - few believe he would deny an illness he knew could be fatal. And since the Pope's health is itself increasingly a central issue for the church, there is another key power player to watch. Last week, when the respirator at John Paul's private apartment wasn't enough to clear his breathing, the Pontiff's longtime personal physician, Renato Buzzonetti, decided to rush...
...much of today's popular music, romance is dying, politics is fatal and God is dead. But Marley covered it all-the sexual, the political, the spiritual-and made all of these concerns seem like the most natural topics to be singing about. He took Jamaica's complicated history-a jumble of such disparate concepts, places and things as Rasta philosophy, Garveyism, pirates, rebellion, guava jelly, and Trench Town - and refashioned it into focused, complex music that was concerned with reality but shot through with magic. He was a musical magic realist, a "Natural Mystic", a man who had visions...
...would crush the soul of China. For the soul of China is eternal. ... We shall live on until the enemy is driven back over scorched land and hurled into the sea. ... Out of the ashes of ruin ... until the world is again sane and beautiful." The firing squad's fatal work doesn't interrupt Kwan Mei's oration; her ghost finishes the speech. It would be Wong's last grand gesture in films...