Word: fated
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...grateful that Proulx does not often drop into this kind of openly reflective tone: she is at her best when carefully texturing rural life, when she tells her stories without wavering or flinching, without intruding into lives so deeply touching and so very distant and unchangeable they seem like fate...
...grateful that Proulx does not often drop into this kind of openly reflective tone: she is at her best when carefully texturing rural life, when she tells her stories without wavering or flinching, without intruding into lives so deeply touching and so very distant and unchangeable they seem like fate...
...managed to defy Cyrus. Heroin proved harder to shake, and Case has fallen painfully off the wagon twice already. However, full of extraordinary willpower, Case tries to shake her habit a third time and offers her help to a stranger, in order to save his little girl from a fate she knows too well. Each character brings personal demons into the struggle to hunt down individual night-mares. Yet somehow, these two tortured souls managed to connect, and in a dark and painful novel, this friendship holds the only promise of hope and redemption. Among horrible acts of violence that...
...property over to her lover. Without betraying the twists of plot that make this film such a pleasure to watch, I only mention in passing that her lover plans to give her up to the Gestapo so he can walk away with her fortune scot free. Her ultimate fate--and the resolution of the film--lies in the hands of the Englishwomen for whom she is both benefactor and object of snobbery...
...fate of Anna Friel's character, Hermia, to get rather lost in so-so productions of A Midsummer Night's Dream, and sure enough, that's what happens in Michael Hoffman's adaptation, which oxymoronically manages to seem both leaden and hasty. Reset for no discernible reason from ancient Athens to 19th century Tuscany, it focuses on the fun stuff--the fairies who inhabit the damp but enchanted wood, the rude mechanicals (led by Kevin Kline's hammy but well-cured Bottom) and their awful-wonderful production of Pyramus and Thisbe...