Word: fatefulness
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...Despite the leaks, British media coverage of the McCanns has been largely sympathetic. Nevertheless, as Greenslade notes, much of the British public has developed a skeptical view of the couple. The McCanns' understandable effort to keep their daughter's fate in the headlines inadvertently turned them into celebrities, he says. "The result is two negatives: they're seen as by some as bad parents, and they're famous for being bad parents. So, there's been a license to trash them. And it's cruel." In the documentary, the couple reveal the type of hate mail they've received...
...Gerry McCann will never escape their unwanted, toxic celebrity. "They are media fodder for life. Every event in their life will be a reason for media intrusion," he says. "This will not be a forgotten case." That will remain true even in the increasingly unlikely event that Madeleine's fate is finally discovered...
...they often redeem their projects with the vague notion of “protest” or discourse. Shvarts claimed her aim was to inspire “some sort of discourse” (what sort, we might wonder?). Vargas says he wanted to draw attention to the common fate of stray Nicaraguan dogs...
...used to roam wild and free” because “for several years, I have been largely confined to a small two-bedroom apartment in the Chelsea section of Manhattan.” Oh, one feels so terrible for poor Jack—what an awful fate to be stuck in Chelsea!However, even from that “confined” vantage point, Handey still manages to roam far and wide and find humor in all that he sees...
...Josef, today confessed that he held his now 42-year-old daughter captive for 24 years in a concealed, windowless basement hideout, where he repeatedly had sexual intercourse with her and where she gave birth to seven of his children. The shocking case has reminded many Austrians of the fate of Natascha Kampusch, who was kidnapped at the age of 10 and kept in a narrow basement for eight years until she managed to flee in August 2006. But the senior investigator in Amstetten, Franz Polzer, said that the cruel deliberateness of Josef Fritzl's deed outstripped the Kampusch case...