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Word: fates (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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Last night's crowd was given an eerie reminderof the theatre's fate when the program wasinterrupted by fire alarms from within thetheater, forcing the assembly to file onto thelawn to await the fire company...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Artists Gather to Recall Heyday of Poets' Theatre | 10/29/1986 | See Source »

...espouse so allencompassing a theology. Politicians are doing it, the press is doing it, and, unfortunately, the parents of Ms. Steel's friends are probably doing it. After all, they will sleep better at night if they believe that they have some control over their children's fate, that they can protect their loved ones from every imaginable evil if they convince them not to use fake i.d.'s, not to take drugs, not to have...

Author: By Joshua H. Henkin, | Title: Truth in Tragedy | 10/25/1986 | See Source »

...only appropriate answer is one resounding "who cares." To say that one shouldn't go to the park with an acquaintance is to say that a woman is tempting fate any time she does the slightest thing to make a man believe she is available...

Author: By Joshua H. Henkin, | Title: Dawn's Tragedy | 10/21/1986 | See Source »

...that sexuality she is putting candy in front of a baby and must accept the consequences. Perhaps that is why the press continually harps on Chambers' "charming good-looks." Overcome by this handsome young man, Ms. Levin simply lost control and followed Chambers to the park, sealing her own fate...

Author: By Joshua H. Henkin, | Title: Dawn's Tragedy | 10/21/1986 | See Source »

Conroy tempts fate and the limits of his talent when he plays at being William Styron, John Irving and perhaps even Mark Twain, if Dr. Lowenstein's couch is considered as a raft on which Jew and Gentile drift toward enlightenment. There is also a reckless blend of Bobbsey Twins adventure and revenge fantasies usually associated with drive-in-movie horror festivals. Would you believe that after Lila, Savannah and Tom are raped by three escaped convicts, the family's pet Bengal tiger bursts in and rips the criminals into small pieces? Would you believe that no one finds...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The World According to Wingo the Prince of Tides | 10/13/1986 | See Source »

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