Word: fateful
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...dancing gay, Jesus as a brilliant businessman. Drawing on the work of historian Joel Carmichael, Vidal argues that when Jesus threw the money changers out of the temple, he was destroying a sophisticated Roman financial structure that controlled banking in the Middle East -- and thereby sealing his own fate...
...fate would have it, the pressure was all on Connecticut as the Crimson rode a gritty team effort to come from behind and score with 36 seconds left in the game...
...appealed to Magritte, because he liked standardized images; it was their encounter and rearrangement that created the magic, more than the things themselves. "Our secret desire," he remarked, "is for a change in the order of things, and it is appeased by the vision of a new order . . . The fate of an object in which we had no interest suddenly begins to disturb us." Turned balusters, game pieces, the little round horse bells known as grelots, cut-out paper doilies, wood paneling, views through a window, fire, a birdcage, a rifle, a tuba, a pipe, loaves of bread, a naked...
...without enough votes to oust a representative--and remember D.C. has no voting member in Congress--have little control over their future. The residents of our capital have to rely on the generosity of voters in other states who probably don't even realize that they are deciding the fate of Washington, D.C. when they choose their representatives...
That precedent causes some to clamor for the exhumation of John F. Kennedy. Most forensic scientists, however, agree that digging up Kennedy could shed light on only a few minor mysteries, such as the fate of the President's brain. It was removed during the autopsy, but it may have been buried later at Kennedy's grave site. Enough documentation exists from the autopsy report, X rays and photos to reconstruct the bullets' paths. Starrs, a longtime Kennedy admirer, balks at the thought of unearthing the slain President. Says he: "That's like exhuming my father...