Word: fate
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...Artists in this country have become the enemy to the conservative and religious right," says Alliger. "[The right] no longer has communism to attack....The artist has replaced that." Lamenting the fate of creativity here, he added, "America is one of the only countries that really undervalues the artist. European communities at least recognize the role of culture in society. Most Third-World cultures don't even have a word for `art' because it's part of everyday life, it's completely integrated....We've lost that...
...EASY TO CONNECT people to the Panda or the American Eagle. The important thing is that we expand our circle of awareness and affection and love for the rest of organisms. We're beginning to have some affection for and concern for the fate of frog species and salamander species. In Europe already, the public is increasingly concerned about butterflies, beetles and the like. I don't mean to say that one will ever consider the giant American Burying beetle, which lives on the decaying corpses of rats and mice, as a cuddly organism like the panda. Nonetheless, there...
Immediately at stake is the fate of BNL's former Atlanta branch manager, Christopher Drogoul, who faces trial for allegedly engineering $4 billion in illegal loans to Iraq. But of increasing concern is the credibility of the CIA, the Justice Department and the Bush Administration. Even if it amounts to a mere bureaucratic botch, the tussle over who misled the public allows Democrats to renew calls for a special prosecutor to examine whether the White House tried to cover up its efforts to coddle Saddam Hussein before the invasion of Kuwait...
Crushed by Fate...
...value, for someone -- anyone -- who might find value in them. In Horton Foote's scrupulous new adaptation, John Malkovich is lumbering Lennie, whose frustrated tenderness crushes the things he would cherish; Gary Sinise is George, Lennie's protective pal; Sherilyn Fenn is the lonely wife held hostage by capricious fate. The credibility of their playing breaks through the familiar sanctity of a "classic" revival. Sinise also directs, in a muted style sensitive both to the palette of a waning California autumn and to the texture of an enduring American parable...