Word: fated
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...teams--one of Harvard and St. Lawrence, and one of Yale and Colgate--will be shown the postseason gate at the conclusion of tonight's games. The other two are given stays of execution for at least four more days, but it is the prospect of this first fate which should scare the shorts off of seventh-year coach Ronn Tomassoni, fourth-year team manager Andy Gunderson...and every Harvard skater in between...
...city of Kaifeng. At the trial Red Guards decried Deng as a "capitalist roader," a "fascist" and a "traitor" and shouted, "Cook the dog's head in boiling oil!" Confronted by such rantings for hours on end, Deng simply removed his hearing aid. What saved him from Liu's fate, evidently, was a simple thing as well. While Mao had always despised the patrician Liu, he remembered with some affection his wartime adventures with Deng. Thus Mao declared Liu "an enemy of the people" but defined the opposition of his old comrade as an antagonism that emerged "from among...
...long." And more. For as director Newell (himself making a quantum leap from the frothy Four Weddings and a Funeral) observes, Brasco "is a hard man, a brutal man," operating in a narrative that offers him no convenient escape clauses, no soft or fanciful evasions of fate. Forced in anguish to abandon his real family for his Mob family--his wife, whose patience with his absences finally runs out, is very well played by Anne Heche--Brasco must ultimately betray his only real friend in the criminal clan, Al Pacino's very weary, very unsuccessful and finally very touching soldier...
...tone for much that follows. Michaels not only creates an imaginary poet, she also examines the ways in which a poetic imagination can arise out of horror. That Jakob survives at all is a miracle. After days of hiding, he is finally driven by hunger to risk his fate by approaching a stranger. "I screamed into the silence the only phrase I knew in more than one language, I screamed it in Polish and German and Yiddish, thumping my fists on my own chest: dirty Jew, dirty Jew, dirty...
...novels of a writer named Paul Michel, who emerged in the 1960s as "the wild boy of his generation." The narrator is more interested in Michel's cool, classically restrained fiction than in his public role as an outspoken homosexual. In fact, the narrator seems unaware of the fate of the real Paul Michel until his Cambridge girlfriend tells him that Michel was diagnosed as a paranoid schizophrenic in 1984 and has been held ever since in one or another French mental institution...