Word: fate
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Radcliffe's top Championship Eights entry encountered a similar fate, as it pulled to a 10th-place finish behind Brown and Princeton, among others...
Nervous? Louis Farrakhan wants you to fear the notably all-male demonstrators. You Harvard students who decided the fate of the Black man in America. You who determine policies for the poor; who can salvage affirmative action. You who can save America from Black wrath. Farrakhan is leading his troops to the battlefront--and their message is nothing less than a political ultimatum. Blacks, increasingly on the losing side in Washington debates, are fearful of the elimination of the American welfare state which they prize so greatly...
...been John Travolta's peculiar fate to personify our desperate hope that a certain modern delinquent type--the grammatically challenged guy wearing tight pants and sporting a duck's-ass haircut--may not be quite as dangerous as he appears to be at first appalled-bourgeois glance. It is what made him a star almost two decades ago in Saturday Night Fever and Grease. And now that he's 41 and finally able to play grownup versions of the punk that was, it is what's making him--after a long season of neglect--a star again...
...media circus was simply a reflection of what Americans wanted to see: a sensational trial that brought into play the fate of a man who was famous only because he could carry a football. Events of much more significance went largely ignored, as important news was pre-empted for the latest DNA results and as network after network scheduled its days around the trial...
...Persuasion" encounters the inevitable fate of a movie based on an Austen novel: It is louder, more simplistic and garish than the original. When Anne and Wentworth kiss on the street in Bath, the whole social code which underlies Austen's world is simply tossed aside in the name of a satisfying climax. But although the film's tone is not perfect, it is close. And the acting, cinematography, even music, are as good as could be hoped for. Go see "Persuasion," but don't forget to stop at the bookstore on the way home...