Word: fated
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...orgy of unsubtle Russophilia, the Fox production scarcely attempts to stick with even the broadest historical facts regarding the fate of the Romanov dynasty and Anastasia. The only part of the film that even attempts to ground itself in history is in a short opening prologue, occurring during an unmentioned First World War, one year after the Russian Revolution in 1916. Somehow, Anastasia, born in 1901, is only eight years old in 1916. With the help of a servant boy, Dmitri, Anastasia manages to escape from Rasputin and his revolutionaries, but falls off a train, hitting her head...
...Harvard stadium started circling the carcass of the Penn football team as early as the second quarter. Harvard dominated the proceedings from the opening kick, but it was Glenn Jackson's 67-yard interception return for a touchdown late in the second quarter that seemed to seal the Quakers' fate...
That score, which put the Crimson up 20-0, essentially sealed Penn's fate. And Harvard's championship...
...never know exactly why Yerma does not become pregnant. Moriarity's old woman would have it that Juan is infertile; the traditional wisdom of the village gossips suggests that Yerma is infertile because she somehow doesn't really want or deserve a child; Yerma herself rages against the "fate" whichs eems to have condemned her. Depending on which system of values the viewer uses to read the play--the rational, the magical, the spiritual and pre-ordained--the meaning is different, the mystery has a different solution...
...detailed discussion of Ian's ultimate fate and parentage, of course, would reveal a key secret of the book. But the gentle presence of Ian, in the end, transforms Felix in the Underworld from an enjoyable if hackneyed yarn into something different and superior, a mystery novel with heart...