Word: fates
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...when, according to his mother, he called out after breakfast one morning and expired. A daughter, Julie, died at 48 days; her mother was feeding the child when the infant choked, turned blue and died. Another daughter, Molly, died at home in bed at three months, and a similar fate befell another son, Noah, who was her last- born child...
...father, and Lucy tells him about his father's great fascination with Lincoln especially his assassination. Lucy recounts sadly how the "Lesser Man forgets who he is and just crumbles the Greater Man continues on." Myth consumes actual individual alive, and Lucy warns her son against a similar fate, always remonstrating," Keep it to scale...
...anyone outside his special circle, the fate of a young Texan named James would have seemed as predictable as it was tragic. The Austin restaurant worker had developed the telltale red-and-purple lesions and had suffered night sweats, diarrhea and weight loss. Then came the inevitable coda; his doctor informed him that he had AIDS. In fact, his T-cell count was down from a normal range of 800 to 1,200 to a depressing...
...basement of Dater Junior High, just next to the boiler room and marked off by thick prison bars, school officials have crafted a fate worse than algebra class. Teachers at the school, part of the Cincinnati, Ohio, public school district, simply call it "the dungeon." Students have more descriptive -- if unprintable -- names for the small windowless cell. Though the prison bars are just painted on the cinder-block entrance, the punishment is real. Delinquent students must remain in the room -- absolutely quiet -- all day, even eating at their desks. "It's so hot and so boring," moans a seventh grader...
...action alternates between aimless divertissement and melodrama for an overblown three hours. At the end, the central character -- a petty crook named Billy Bigelow (Hayden) who kills himself rather than face capture by the police -- returns to earth as a prospective angel to save his adolescent daughter from a fate like his own. The girl's only apparent sin is to dance sexily in a ballet that implies the loss of her virginity. The father-savior doesn't say anything meaningful to his child. He just leaves a star that presumably symbolizes religious faith. The daughter is thereupon declared magically...