Word: fateful
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...insecure. Hence the new black art displays a peculiar love-hate relation to the defiant culture of the inner city: an anxious amalgam of intimacy and enmity. Beneath it all is the black bourgeoisie's deep-seated fear that they're only a couple of paychecks away from the fate of the underclass...
...Fate only does it once," he said...
While waiting for time to determine the fate of his predictions, Wardell says he will spend this year writing a thesis on the American telecommunications industry...
...Canadian tourist who changes her itinerary in the mountains of southeastern Europe is captured by tribal Ghegs and put to work. Village routines induce a hypnotic adjustment that virtually erases her former self. The ways of these isolated Christians are bloody and strict. A woman can dodge her tribal fate as breeder and toiler only by renouncing sex, living alone and dressing in men's clothing. In this way the captive Canadian avoids being sold into a Muslim marriage...
...takes some living to get to this insight. Other than Munro's considerable talent, the only constants in these stories are remorseless time and blind fate. This does not mean that Munro can't have a little fun. The Jack Randa Hotel is high comedy in which a woman secretly follows her runaway husband to New Zealand, where she intercepts his letters to a woman he does not know is dead. The abandoned wife then has her small revenge by forging snotty but elegantly written responses...