Word: fated
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...went to a French school in New York," she notes. "I've grown up bicultural. It almost seems like fate...
...Concurrent Premieres and Commissioning Fund to which saxophonists around the world pay a fee for the right to premiere the work in their local area. Thus the work, which was performed Sunday night in dozens of cities, is guaranteed at least fifty performances; the idea is to avoid the fate of most commissions, which are performed once and then forgotten; the idea is to avoid the fate of most commissions, which are performed once and then forgotten...
Given Wattenberg's unabashedly conservative positions on many issues--trying to eliminate the root causes of crime does not work, distributing condoms in the schools is wrong--one wonders why he has remained a Democrat as long as he has. He hints at the answer: "As fate had it, I had accumulated some small amount of influence in the ongoing Democratic dialogue. That was not something to squander." The result is a book that reads like a cynical proposal to land a big fat political consulting contract for the '96 election--and any candidate who heeds his words will...
...order by filming extemporaneous situations as they unfold. But despite his film maker's constant reiteration of his belief that "What happens happens for a reason. Everything has a meaning," the neurotic and nervous director, who has often been called the Iranian-American Woody Allen, refuses to yield to Fate...
...crowning example of Zahedi's failure as a believer in Fate and as a director happens on Christmas morning. Bobby has brought presents for his family and crew. Having anticipated problems, Bobby bought three hits of the drug Ecstasy, (one for each family member) to facilitate the emotional healing he longs for. This blatant imposition of artificial emotions, much less real emotions, by introducing a chemical signifies his failure to believe that God will "send down a miracle...