Word: fateful
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...your son is gay? Not so hard, if he doesn't tell you. Easier still, if he arranges it himself, after Simon suggests that Wai-tung wed Wei-wei (May Chin), a pretty artist who's behind in her rent. Wei-wei doesn't mind: "It's my fate. I always fall for handsome gay men." Then -- oops! -- the parents arrive in New York, expecting a bedroom in Wai-tung's home, a big banquet and an immediate heir...
...least adhere to democracy, than for the contentious, fractured Palestinians. The P.L.O. has long been strife- ridden, and the news of the secretly negotiated agreement only added to its turmoil. Arafat was harshly chastised for letting the preliminary agreement postpone for five years the all-important resolution of the fate of Israeli settlements, the future of Jerusalem, and Palestinian sovereignty over the occupied territories. In Damascus radical Palestinian leader Ahmad Jibril warned Arafat that he was risking assassination if he went ahead...
...balk at the $100 top price for the two shows. Critics may stress the unsubtle, almost cartoonish nature of some of the characters and acting, rather than focus on the mounting and ultimately overwhelming power of the narrative. Even if everyone lauds the show, it may share the fate of the 1990 Tony Award-winning adaptation of The Grapes of Wrath, which sounded so depressing that audiences stayed away...
Drab as this existence may sound, it was the essence of Larkin's poetic impulse. The calculated isolation, the lack of commitment were what enabled , him to write what little he did (four volumes in 40 years), just as the fate of the mockingly ironic outsider was his persistent subject. As he put it, "Deprivation is for me what daffodils were for Wordsworth." Characteristically, he declined the post of poet laureate, but by the time he died of cancer at 63 in 1985, he had become a sort of grumpy unofficial laureate of all that was middling, thwarted and humorously...
Could the same fate befall Michael Jackson? "Woody Allen was Humpty Dumpty," says Guyer, "and now Michael Jackson is. They won't be put back together again. Whenever Michael Jackson pats a child's head, it will be looked at in a different way. This is reminiscent of the Salem witch trials. But we're a global village now, and the whole world is watching...