Word: fatalities
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Terry Blanchard, as Elba's version of Elsa Maxwell, John Spooner, as Walrus, Duchess of Wopping, the Baltimore girl who made her debut in the YWCA and grew up to "rock an empire," and Amyn Khan, an Yma Sumac, whose attraction for men--all men--is fatal, are marvelous. All of them can sing, all of them can act, and all of them have excellent parts. The scene in which they get together to protest that each is really a "Lady at Heart," is a high point of the show...
...discrepancy between what they remembered six years later and what they had actually written down at the time rendered their evidence absurd. Finally, there was the medical mystery of the human constitution: were the injections excessive or were they reasonable to keep the patient comfortable? Were they fatal or would Mrs. Morell have died anyway? Physicians' testimony was neatly split...
...Eventually Rothstein owned pieces of so many sorts of businesses-including real estate, rumrunning, narcotics, bookmaking, insurance. Wall Street bucket shops, trade unions, racing stables, bail bonds-that he was quite unable to count his money. The result was fatal. Faced for once in his life with a big gambling debt, he had doubts about his solvency and refused to pay up. Eight weeks later, on Nov. 4, 1928, he was shot in the belly in Room 349 of the Park Central Hotel on Manhattan's Seventh Avenue and died two days later, after crying...
...Senate is unsatisfactory as a replacement for the State Department. Accepting Dr. Henry Kissinger's comment that, "We don't lack ideas. What we do lack is a determined sustained policy," the inability of the individual senators, or the whole Senate, to do anything beyond making a proposal is fatal...
Twenty days' march from the beach, the few remaining rebels reached blessed refuge in the Sierra Maestra, a wilderness of sheer cliffs, snarled liana vines and pockets of thick, orange mud. Batista, in a fatal mistake, overconfidently withdrew his troops. Castro and his men lived on plantains and mangos-and waited. The first break came from Jose ("Pepe") Figueres, President of Costa Rica, 800 miles to the southwest. To a hastily cleared Sierra airstrip, Socialist Figueres sent a twin-engined Beechcraft loaded with rifles, Tommy guns, ammunition and grenades. "I felt sorry for that man," Pepe explained...