Word: fated
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Crucifixion. The change in tone appears inappropriate, overly-contrived and unbelievable. The lack of character development and believable dramatic acting from the previously-perky cast prevents the audience from sympathizing with the characters. While the cast members were shedding laughably phony tears, the audience was so indifferent to the fate of the Messiah that, following the drawn-out crucifixion scene, there was not a wet eye in the house...
...season long, critics questioned the depth of the Harvard team, citing how the success of the senior line determined the squad's fate...
...DOLE WON A GREAT victory last week, and it wasn't in South Carolina. That win was sweet, but necessary and expected, just like North and South Dakota on Tuesday. His greater triumph was a secret one, in a private struggle to settle his fate as it rests in the hands of his party allies. Hidden somewhere, on their desks or in their dreams, every Republican chieftain has a list. They've had them ever since Dole began losing primaries, or winning with two-thirds of his party voting against him. They rank the men who could come...
...February, Castro admitted, his patience had run out. In the absence of a response from the U.S, he decided to take action. "We instructed the armed forces that we would not tolerate it again," he said. The Cessnas' fate was therefore sealed the minute they decided to venture back near Cuban airspace. On Tuesday, Madeleine Albright, the U.S. Ambassador to the U.N., read from transcripts of intercepted radio conversations between Cuban ground control and the pilots of the two MiGs that blew away the Cessnas. Just after he fired a missile, one pilot gleefully spoke of shooting off his target...
...indications are that Britain's heir-but-one is developing the emotional arsenal to survive his singular fate. He seems to have inherited his mother's relaxed manner and something of the paradoxical shy self-confidence that so rivets her public. He may also be the most media-savvy person in his family. When Diana was offered the presidency of the Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, the avid gamesman advised her, "You can't do that--every time I kill something, they'll blame you." It looks as if he may make it after...