Word: fateful
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...pretty sticky situation. If you decide to stay with Sally, you'll be miserable. She sounds like a fate worse than the Phoenix barbecue. But then again, telling her you can't stand to live with her might trigger severe depression, maybe even a drug and/or alcohol problem, and Sally is already olfactorily famous. On the other hand, you should be selfish. Tell her that you'd rather live with new people next year. If you don't want to tell her the truth, make something up. You could have a rare mental health condition that demands new roommates...
...film is creepy fun and deeply noir. In smart, cynical snarls, William Holden tears off the language of a hungry young writer who can't hold tight enough to his dreams. Joe Gillis' luck seems to be on the upswing when fate sends him straight into the "white elephant" palace of an aging silent film star. "You used to be big," he tells her, dimly remembering the name. "I am big," she replies, "It's the pictures that got small...
Band of Gypsys was recorded in the very last moments of the 1960s, and this accident of fate actually serves as powerful symbol for the whole album. The concert at New York's Fillmore East which comprises this album took place on New Year's Eve 1967-70. The first side consists of two of Hendrix's most powerful artistic statements, epic versions of "Who Knows" and "Machine Gun." These two tracks can be seen to represent an anguished re-evaluation of the end of an era of optimism marked by the late 1960s. The second side of the album...
While the midnight disease is one of the novel's main preoccupations--it begins with the memory of Vetch, as if everything that follows is an elegy on the dark fate of the write--it is probably the least successful element of what is essentially a comic story. Chabon's strength is his witty, graceful, delicately absurd style, and his attempt to turn his comic creations into bearers of a secret curse does not come off. Grady remains a Rabelaisian "minotaur," too devoted to sex, marijuana and adventure ever to seem suicidal; even James is more quirky than disturbed...
Someone Who'll Watch Over Me. ThroughApril 9. New Repertory Theatre, 54 Lincoln St.,Newton Highlands. 332-1646. The Boston premiere ofthe 1992-93 winner of the New York Drama Critics'Circle Award for "Best Foreign Play," relates thestory of a trio of hostages awaiting their fate atthe hands of unseen captors. In their struggle tosurvive the incarceration, these untimely heroescourageously confront their fears and a lovingbond to combat their isolation and helplessness...