Word: fateful
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...effort by FATE, or Focusing Attitudes Toward Empowerment, is the third such campaign in less than a decade...
...ADMINISTRATION advertises its moral bankruptcy in its current brief before the Supreme Court, which will decide the fate of many of the refugees this week. Bush's Solicitor General, Kenneth Starr, argues in the brief that challenges to repatriation from human rights advocates and religious organizations represent an "unprecedented assault" on executive power. Executive privilege is the last refuge of scoundrels--just ask Richard Nixon or Ollie North. The appeal to legality before morality, however, fits nicely with the refugee/migrant distinction. It clears the conscience--and Guantanamo Bay, where the refugees are waiting--without doing any good for the Haitians...
...community must realize it has two choices: it can live as a municipality or die as a ghetto," said FATE member Andrew Jones, who was a leader in an earlier secessionist drive...
...there is a problem with Outerbridge Reach, it is not that some of its conclusions appear improbable but that its structure seems a tad too deterministic. Stone, at his highest pitch, is a poet of doom; his characters must confront nothing less than the implacable pattern that fate has handed them. When they think they are most in control, changing the direction of their lives, they are actually exposing themselves to ruin. To be safe is contemptible, to dare disastrous. That Stone makes exciting fiction out of this depressing scenario is the hallmark of his mastery...
Straight Out of Brooklyn--Nineteen-year-old Matty Rich's directing debut delves into the life of a Black family in Red Hook, a Brooklyn housing complex. The movie examines the fate of the young generation in urban New York City. The viewer sympathizes with the plight of the son. Dennis Brown, who looks down on his father, an abusive gas-pumper. But Brown has no patience to work his way out of Brooklyn and is determined to rob a drug dealer. Both the father and son emerge as the victims and not the villains of society...