Word: fatefulness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...legend will grow now that he's gone. The pathos of this story, the sense of fate drawing him into its clutches, the broken ankle, his anxiety about the flight, the heavy traffic en route to the airport and the late takeoff, darkness setting in as he flew up the coast, the refusal to turn back, the radio silence, the nearly moonless night, the descent into the mist and the horizonless dark, and the terrible, spiraling fall...
...area, and Dick has become enamored of a joke about someone finding the tapes of this interview, a la The Blair Witch Project. He lies on the top of a rock with his head hanging over the cliff. He suggests the interview be conducted as a sleepover. But fate need not be further tempted...
...think he would be, coming from the family he comes from. You'd think he'd be always concerned about safety and luck and fate. But maybe when you were J.F.K. Jr., so surrounded by tragedy, with a life so shaped by it, maybe you thought, "We've had our share. We've had more than our share. I'm going to get in a plane and fly." You can come from a place of such bad luck that you think your luck will always hold...
...that has shadowed the Kennedy name for more than a half-century. But when John and Robert Kennedy were assassinated, their death seemed, if nothing else, at least commensurate with the drama and weight of their public life. When their children die prematurely, it can seem almost as if fate were picking them off for sport...
Though George built a circulation (lately around 400,000) much larger than that of more staid political journals, the magazine was losing money, and Kennedy had been negotiating George's fate with Hachette. Just last week an industry newsletter reported that the magazine's owners were ready to shut it down. Kennedy told staff last week that he was negotiating with other potential publishers. But if George's future looks doubtful without Kennedy, it will at least be an important artifact for having bridged the worlds of politics and celebrity--worlds that John F. Kennedy Jr. knew from both sides...