Word: fatefulness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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However, I find this seemingly dismal fate much more preferable than the other alternative for a Red Sox playoff team: getting swept. They are the only team to suffer a four-game sweep in the League Championship Series when it was the only barrier between the regular season and the World Series...
WASHINGTON: It's up to the House now. After the Judiciary Committee voted Monday night to recommend an impeachment inquiry -- splitting 21-16, strictly along party lines -- President Clinton's fate will be sealed by a full floor vote due later this week. Not in terms of the probe itself; Republicans have more than enough votes to make that happen. Rather, it's a question of moral legitimacy: Will 50 or 60 Dems cross the aisle in a show of bipartisanship, as they did for the release of the Starr report? Or will it be no more than a handful...
Moore's fait accompli would not finally come until shortly after a Penn score. Whether it was a sense of urgency or simply the hand of fate, Moore's equalizer and Miller's tally shortly thereafter allowed Harvard to finally make good on its threats...
...magnificent creature," he calls the great auk, "an extraordinary paddler and swimmer." Sitting on the deck of a Wareham, Mass., home adorned by portraits and a sculpture of the 2-ft.-tall black-and-white bird, the shaggy-maned Wheeler scowls when he thinks about the great auk's fate. During the 18th and 19th centuries, commercial fishing vessels scoured the waters off North America for cod. Since the all but defenseless great auk provided a source of meat and oil, fishermen clubbed the birds to death by the millions on the rookeries off Newfoundland. The last two known members...
...1960s, a girl could even love her genially alcoholic writer dad (Kris Kristofferson). Based on the memoirish novel by James Jones' daughter Kaylie, this beautifully observed film is a domestic epic in miniature: of precocious kids and stern teachers, of maids and their amours, of complex friendships ended by fate's whim. In an exemplary cast the standouts are Luisa Conlon and Leelee Sobieski as the daughter at seven and 14, and Anthony Roth Costanza as her brilliantly effeminate best friend. The Merchant-Ivory attention to period detail often seems like the movie equivalent of good penmanship. But here...