Word: fated
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...plot had the essentials: murder, morality and chewy nougat. All that David Marx needed was someone with whom to collaborate on his self-proclaimed best idea for a movie ever. Fate brought Marx together with B.J. Novak, roommate and aspiring filmmaker to collaborate in "Studio Holworthy" to make these first-years' first movie. The plot of Marx's screenplay, which came to be called "Who Laughs Last," centers around a joke printed on the inside of a Laffy Taffy candy wrapper--a joke so egregiously unfunny that a group of young Laffy Taffy devotees vow to find and kill...
...Murphy scholarship and the Boston Newsboy's Scholarships have met the same fate--interest from these gifts now fills coffers used for general scholar-ships...
...became clear to Fleiszer that collegiate records are important, but scouts increasingly rely on raw numbers from combines to separate true prospects from the field. Sports Acceleration North gave Fleiszer the opportunity to focus on the specific tests that would determine his professional fate...
...decision turned on the fact that the wife planned to donate the eggs to an infertile couple, reducing her personal interest in them. Courts usually try to be Solomonic in their decisions, but in the Kasses' case that may not be enough. King Solomon had to decide the fate of only one baby, and it was alive...
...social critic even though it dealt entirely with the subject of herself. Now, looking more self-possessed, Wurtzel graces the cover of her second book topless and giving the finger. Bitch: In Praise of Difficult Women (Doubleday; 434 pages; $23.95) is, more or less, a meandering lamentation on the fate of irrepressible women, those too angry, too tormented, too selfish--those who, say, would prefer to see big pictures of themselves on book jackets when stock art would do. Unless such women tame themselves, Wurtzel bemoans, they wind up dying young. Or, one supposes, at the very least unmarriageable...