Word: fated
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...Mexico was like Hollywood, or like India today: a national industry heavily invested in the romantic and domestic weepie, with fearless emoting, hairpin turns of fate, mega-doses of religious and family piety, all set to the popular songs of the day. (Melodrama literally means music drama.) Noble mothers are forever sacrificing themselves -silently, stoically, suicidally -for their kids. Fully three of the 10 Infante features end with some spiteful young person driving some dear old person to death, only to be flattened with a shocking revelation: "She's / he's your mother / father!" Cue tears that would flood...
...third varsity appeared to be doing well in the first half of their race, but fate was against them, and a broken oar with 700 meters to go held them back to a second-place finish...
...That showed me a lot, especially for a freshman,” Crimson coach Joe Walsh said. “He was keeping them off balance with the changeup all day.” Yale’s No. 4 and No. 5 hitters suffered the same fate as Lavarnway. Using his fastball and breaking ball to get get ahead in the count, and then going back to the changeup for the finish, Perlman sent first baseman Marc Sawyer back to the bench swinging and then caught third baseman Pedro Obregon staring to strike...
...Albright-Knox, already has a substantial Asian collection. But much of the rest will disappear into the possession of dealers and private collectors. In the way of such things, in due time some of it may well make its way back into the public domain. It's the fate of art to circulate. But make no mistake, due time could be quite a while...
Promoted as a suspense-filled thriller about a man chased by atrocious fate, “First Snow” never musters enough strength to hold an audience’s attention. In his directorial debut, Mark Fergus—who was nominated for a screenwriting Oscar for “Children of Men”—fails to enliven his own elementary script, and the film suffers from a lack of momentum. Written by Fergus and Hawk Ostby, “First Snow” follows flooring salesman Jimmy Starks (Guy Pearce, “Memento?...