Word: fatefulness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Radcliffe's male counterparts suffered a similar fate at IRAs. Despite posting the fastest qualifying time in the preliminary heats--more than seven seconds ahead of its closest competitor--the Harvard lights finished third in the finals with a time...
...control we try to exercise over ourselves and others, using stratagems of love, hope and fear. Most people think they have something to do with shaping their existence. But what if that's a fiction? Who's directing our lives? And how do we negotiate with God or fate or the great TV auteur in the sky? Finally, the film speaks to man's isolation from the world around him. The solipsist believes that he is the only reality; everything else is just...
...desperate bid to cool a market meltdown was accompanied by a shift in speculation as to how Prime Minister Sergei Kiriyenko plans to save the economy: "The word yesterday was 'devaluation'; the word today is 'bailout,'" says TIME Moscow correspondent Andrew Meier. And that may leave Russia's fate in the hands of Newt Gingrich and his congressional followers...
After perusing Toho's holy writ and digesting its meaning, Emmerich faxed the parameters of the studio's Godzilla-by-committee to Patrick Tatopoulos, creator of the aliens in Independence Day, the duo's biggest hit so far. As fate would have it, Tatopoulos never got the fax. Forging ahead anyway, he designed a monster that tampers with nearly every rule in The Book and is likely to leave fans of the old radioactive reptile either in awe or screaming "Heresy...
That was a bit of a disappointment. A last triumph, a standoff against encroaching fate, would have crowned the evening and rounded memory with a perfect dramatic closure. Too much to expect perhaps, but in a sense that was Sinatra's own fault. Too much, he had always shown us, was the least we could expect from him. Not as excess, mind, but as abundance. So much heart, so much sorrow, such delicacy and such braggadocio, all for the music he made indelible, with enough to spare so that it spilled over into his life and into all the public...