Word: fateful
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...inadvertently hilarious 1958 science-fiction film Attack of the 50 Foot Woman, now re-made for HBO (Dec. 11, 8 p.m. EST), Nancy is trapped by a philandering husband and a cruel, cruel fate. Afflicted with ray burns suffered when she is seized by a huge space monster, Nancy is transmogrified into a murdering colossus and ultimately killed by a sheriff wielding a riot...
...illuminated superbly by Frances Aronson's lighting, look and feel surprisingly like the current American landscape. Although it may not be comforting, nor particularly pleasant, it is both familiar and recognizable. We sense that we are watching ourselves, watching our own world, as it hurtles toward an uncertain fate...
Kennedy stressed that young people, who currently vote at a lower proportion than all other age groups, could play a vital role in determining the political fate of the country. "Since 1968, the presidential elections could have gone the opposite way if young people had voted," he said...
...H.M.S. Pinafore describes the show as "an entirely original nautical comic opera." "Nautical" is the only original item here, for if you've seen one Gilbert and Sullivan operetta, you've seen them all. Take the beloved feel-good plot of protagonists overcoming rigid British class divisions through happy fate, play it out in an exotic new location each time, and voila! You've got instant rollicking G&S humor. Luckily, it's an attractive formula and one that is well-mastered by the Harvard-Radcliffe Gilbert and Sullivan Players...
...very fortunate--it was either divine intervention or fate," Murphy says...