Word: fatefulness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Convicted of murder, they accepted their fate with an air of bafflement about the white man's justice. In their eyes could be read their failure to understand why they had been arrested. True, they had killed Basuas-but are not the Basuas enemies of the Panamoli? True, they had disguised themselves in crocodile skins-but why not? They ate part of their victims' bodies-but how else could they appropriate the victims' personal qualities...
...script, is not punished for something she did, but for something she did not do. Is it an attack on the practice of capital punishment? Possibly. But the script spends no sympathy on the two men convicted as the heroine's accomplices, who meet the same fate as she does. Well then, what is it? To judge from the far-out photography, real desperate sound track, and dragsville dialogue that Krylon-spray the whole film with a cheap glaze of don't-care-if-I-do-die juvenility, Producer Walter Wanger seems less concerned to assist the triumph...
...limp in their smokefilled digs, drowning the memory of a golden thing they once possessed. Need we mention the fourteen spectacular suicides (one symbolically, a sacrifice on the Bowl flag-pole)? Or the dingy homes of carnality in nearby Bridgeport, where scores of undergraduates sought shoddy release from a fate they found inscrutable? Or the television appeal by President Griswold, imploring alumni coast-to-coat to remain calm in their bungalows, bundled in warm blankets, crouched in dark corners...
...There was however a dominant element in our relationship. I could not regard him as representing captive and prostrate France, nor indeed the France that had a right to decide freely the future for herself. I knew he was no friend of England. -Winston Churchill: The Hinge of Fate...
...maleficent diamond that has legendarily brought sinister fate to its owners for 300 years last week became the property of everyone in the U.S. By registered mail (postage: 90?; registry charge: $151.85), the Hope Diamond went from Manhattan to the new Hall of Gems and Minerals in Washington's Smithsonian Institution. Donor: Harry Winston, the jeweler prince, who bought the $1,000,000-$2,000,000, steel blue, 44½-carat purey from the estate of Mrs. Evalyn Walsh McLean, famed capital hostess whose first son was killed by an automobile, whose daughter died from an overdose of sleeping...