Word: fateful
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Such is the unhappy fate of Britain's monarchy. We just seem unable to separate the institution from its present occupants. The Royal Romp of the past decade has spawned a growing disenchantment with the entire system of constitutional monarchy, so much so that even the venerable Economist has entered the fray, declaring on the cover of a recent issue that the monarchy is "An idea whose time has passed." All of this is done without very much thought...
Death and extinction are supposed to tie in with the recurring and problematic dinosaur motif. While the others are doomed dinosaurs. Todd has set himself apart, a Pterodactyl among lizards destined for a different fate. He is slated to survive as something eternal; vigilance, vengeance, or perhaps something darker...
...fate of Massachusetts rides with the fate of the nation. All the perks and perk Kennedy metes out may delay somewhat the disastrous effects of his liberal policies, but those effects are inevitation...
...Pensacola jury took just 20 minutes today to convict Paul Hill of murder in theJuly shotgun killings of an abortion doctorand his bodyguard. Hill now faces either life in prison or death in the electric chair -- a fate determined when the jury returns Thursday. Hill, acting as his own lawyer, offered no defense during his three-day trial. Hill had ambushed Dr. John B. Britton, 69; his unarmed bodyguard, James H. Barrett, 74; and Barrett's wife, June, 68, as the three arrived at the Ladies Center clinic on July 29. He was barred from arguing that the slayings were...
...museum's third gallery, "This Path We Travel: Celebrations of Contemporary Native Creativity," that the museum's full originality becomes clear. A walk-through, multimedia collaboration by 15 contemporary Indian artists, it is irreverent, sometimes heavy-handed and very of-the-moment. It ends with a meditation on the fate of the earth titled Worldview, dominated by a traditional burial scaffolding embedded with a parking meter permanently stuck on time expired and set up next to a video monitor screening images of war. Previous Indian museums, says director Richard West, "felt they were doing civilization and humanity a favor...