Word: fateful
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...During most of the past 50 years, honest officials in Sicily who tried to block or expose Mafia corruption tended to become what Sicilians call "excellent cadavers." Two who met this fate are the heroes of Alexander Stille's new book about the Mafia's longtime stranglehold on Sicily. Prosecutors Giovanni Falcone and Paolo Borsellino managed to break the infamous code of silence that surrounded the Mafia. Their evidence led to the 1987 conviction of 344 Mafia members, but in 1992 both prosecutors were assassinated.TIME critic John Elsonsays the while "Excellent Cadavers" is a bit uneven, it is nonetheless...
...music changes, the monks strip off their black robe--along with their ascetic--vows and the piece becomes more gender-conscious, an examination of revelry, love and, as the program notes, "the ever-changing fate of man." The backdrop is lit at the start and end of the piece with a medeival drawing of the Wheel of Fate; the images change throughout the piece, as does the lighting, music and mood...
...must have, at the time, seemed like a brilliant idea at a Globe brainstorming session--lovers kept apart by cruel fate, dependent upon the beneficence of a Rhodes Scholarship committee for rapturous reunion...
...been taken. But there was this picture: a helicopter perched on a mere nub of a rooftop in the city, its crew chief reaching down to help someone up a ladder while a long line of people wait below for their own chance to escape. A joke of fate that the very machine that was supposed to guarantee our victory should prove the means of our retreat...
...planes were bombing the capital as part of a coup; the NVA was launching its final assault. Actually, that did not happen for more than 24 hours. But the capital obviously was no longer safe. Time for the last Americans, and the Vietnamese who had tied their fate to the U.S., to get out--quick...