Word: fatefulness
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...side of an office building, a statue of a business man leans forward, the wall resting where his head should be. A clever poem next to him recounts the fate of his "head for business." Sitting in Grand Central Market, eating fried bananas and feeling grateful that I took Spanish in school, I was amazed by how much I liked the parts of LA that...
Plenty of conservative investors predict the same fate for today's highflying Internet stocks, which owe much of their appeal to the growth in online commerce. So why are America Online and Yahoo, each in its way a portal to the Net, two of my favorite stocks? Because the Net really delivers what TV shopping only promised. Rather than sitting in front of the tube, stupefied by a parade of junk while waiting for something you might want to buy, on the Net you can instantly research and order exactly what you want--whether a pearl necklace or a ticket...
With the land in question a checkerboard ownership of Navajo, other private landholders and the U.S. government, the ultimate fate of the mine may depend on who wins jurisdiction in court. Regardless, the Navajo syllables To eii be iina at e (Water is life) have become fighting words in Crownpoint...
...avoid that sorry fate? You'll want to weigh two crucial questions. One: Is the gadget digital? In short order, virtually all data will be rendered in computer language to move fluently through the Net's electronic sprawl. Analog phones and plain-film cameras will be about as worthwhile tomorrow as Betamax movies are in our VHS world today. To be sure, you'll still pay extra to go digital: ordinary Canon cameras, with their quaint loadable film, run from $200 bargains on up the price scale, while the digital Canon Sureshot costs $699 at New York City's 47th...
Over and over, the comfortable affection at the beginning of an episode is tested and twisted by fate. In Decalogue, Four (Honor Thy Father and Thy Mother), Anka, a pretty young actress who flirtatiously dotes on her father, finds a letter from her mother, who died just after the girl's birth. This man is not her father! The physical closeness the man and girl shared, natural when paternal, is now replayed in Anka's mind as an erotic mating dance. Did he feel that way too? she asks him in a love scene of wondrous and creepy intimacy...