Word: fated
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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King, alas for thy fate...
...André Malraux remains the archetypical questing man, still casting a fiercely brilliant eye on man's fate and mankind's shifting perceptions of art and politics. His latest book, La Tête d'Obsi-dienne, is a bestseller in France, even though it is heavily philosophical. In it, he reflects on art and civilization-Eastern, Western, African, pre-Columbian, prehistoric. TIME Correspondent Paul Ress visited the author in the Paris suburb of Verrières-le-Buisson, where he lives in a villa surrounded by sweeping lawns and old cedars. Ress's report...
...ship, which is two-thirds government-owned, will end this spring, and the $80 million France will be put up for sale-probably for $15 million. One possible customer is the Arab League, which would use the ship to transport pilgrims to Mecca. That would be a more dignified fate than that of the United States, now mothballed, and the Queen Elizabeth, destroyed by fire as she was about to be converted to a floating university in Hong Kong harbor...
...might have been happy as only a wife and mother, claims Soprano Maria Callas, 50. "There have been two great loves in my life," she told a Miami Herald interviewer. "My husband and another man." But fate had other plans. The plump twelve-year-old who belted out Caro Nome on the Original Amateur Hour grew up to be the most famous opera singer of her generation, a tempestuous diva whose emotional pyrotechnics and lengthy affair with Aristotle Onassis often attracted as much attention as her vocal virtuosity...
Ironically, one of Hemlock Stones's peculiar assertions is the strongest warning against this album. The British crime-stopper says that when a rat stops chewing, his teeth will grow into his brain. Those who drop weightier matters to listen to this flim risk a similar mental fate...