Word: fateful
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Gentle and artless but with a strong social bite, Griffith's best songs conjure up a series of four-minute worlds, miniature but universal brushes with blind fate, transient love and life's harsh realities. In Trouble in the Fields, struggling Okie farmers battle the farm depression of the early '80s, "when the bankers swarm like locusts out there, turning away our yield." Lookin' for the Time tells of a forlorn streetwalker who dreams of the day when she can afford to let the cruising "limos just slide...
...actor-writers answered questions about their favorite MST3K movie (Manos -- the Hands of Fate) or about the off-camera relationship of Murphy and Beaulieu to their puppets Tom and Crow (Murphy: "We have a little place up in the Poconos"; Beaulieu: "Crow and I are not on speaking terms"). The creative staff, led by producer Jim Mallon, signed autographs for hours. At another panel, Beverly Garland, plucky star of three Roger Corman dramas savaged by MST3K, said, "My God, I wish we had had that dialogue when we were doing the picture!" The convention moved to Minneapolis' State Theater...
After Chernikoff's shot bounced off the Eagle netminder, Bowes was able to head the ball into the net and seal B.C.'s fate with just over a minute to play...
...victims, unwisely and too well. Who is worse? The amoral rake who seduces and abandons without remorse? Or the wily temptress who sends her dark knight on errant missions of the heart? In this telling, the two protagonists not only are equally responsible, they deserve each other, and their fate...
...fate of democracy elsewhere in the hemisphere is not threatened by its loss in Haiti. If it were, the region's other freely elected leaders would have gladly joined the action. Most haven't. Those who have are participating reluctantly...