Word: fated
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...enterprise. Conceivably, imaginative literature at its highest pitch could do what tons of historical research and theological studies have failed to accomplish: present a convincing account of what it may have felt like to be the man Jesus, human like his contemporaries but given a divine vision, mission and fate that they have been spared. But not even the Christ-haunted Dostoyevsky tried to go where Mailer has now rushed in. Mailer anticipates and tries to soothe the initial uneasiness that his book will arouse in most of those who pick it up. Mailer?s Jesus suggests that...
...with the expiration of the "lease of Hong Kong" in sight, Deng Xiaoping and Margaret Thatcher reached an agreement on Hong Kong's return to China. The fate of Hong Kong was sealed with a Sino-British joint declaration and its provision for the Basic...
...coalition is apparently heartened rather than daunted by the fate of two propositions to regulate HMOs that appeared on last November's ballot. Both lost but drew about 40% of the vote--even though supporters of one measure were outspent nearly 50 to 1 by their foes. The more restrictive of the two measures, significantly, was drafted largely by the California Nurses Association. Nurses fear that HMOs want to squeeze them out of many jobs and replace them with low-paid technicians...
...announced last month that the character of Ellen Morgan would indeed be coming out in a special one-hour episode on the last day of April, just in time for sweeps. That resolved, DeGeneres, who had felt constrained from speaking frankly about the issue while her sitcom's fate was still in the balance, is coming out too. "For me," she says, "this has been the most freeing experience because people can't hurt me anymore. I don't have to worry about somebody saying something about me, or a reporter trying to find out information. Literally, as soon...
...ongoing obsession with TV's responsibility comes at a time when the networks' hold on the viewing public continues to erode--just this past February the networks' share of the total viewing audience dropped 4.6% from a year ago, continuing a two-decades-long decline. But whatever Ellen's fate with the Nielsens, television's treatment of sexuality is likely to continue becoming increasingly frank, vulgar or immoral, depending on one's vantage point and what, of course, one is viewing (Chicago Hope? Married...With Children? A made-for-TV movie starring Tori Spelling as a hooker?) The medium...