Word: fate
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...hardly cop a headline, but Tonya and Nancy held our fascination for weeks. Some see O.J. Simpson as a hero, not guilty by reason of celebrity. Others want him to be unmasked as a villain, if only because it solves this riveting murder mystery. Until a jury determines his fate, he is neither. He is a minor pop star -- a onetime running back, a rental-car salesman, a modestly gifted actor -- in big trouble. Perhaps in an age long depleted of kings, we can come no closer to Greek tragedy than Oedipus Hertz...
Could this fate befall James Cameron, Hollywood's most daring and extravagant auteur? Not bloody likely. An '80s-style artist-brigand, Cameron makes ripe allegories, often about the search for a redeemer, that are both personal and popular. The Terminator, Aliens, The Abyss and Terminator 2: Judgment Day all took big risks, with film form and finance, that paid off. Cameron is a daredevil director: he goes skydiving without a chute and lands in clover...
Voters across the state will go to the polls in November to decide the fate of rent control in Massachusetts, thanks to a Supreme Judicial Court ruling yesterday declaring a referendum on the issue legal...
...have always walked alone," writes Zhirinovsky. "I grew up in a situation where there was no kind of warmth from anybody -- not from relatives or from friends and teachers. I lived the greater part of my life without almost a single happy day . . . It seems to have been my fate that I never experienced real love or friendship...
...backhanded attempt to do away with capital punishment altogether. The White House has been unable to figure out how to raise the $12 billion it thinks will be needed to finance a new world-trade treaty it wants Congress to pass by year's end; thus that treaty's fate is in doubt. And while the economy continues to perk up -- despite the slides in the value of the dollar and in the stock and bond markets -- the public is not giving Clinton credit...