Word: fates
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Tall and leggy, she seems to have double-jointed hips -- her ordinary kick is stopped only by her ear. Onstage she seems radiantly alone. This Swan Queen may be the Prince's fantasy; she mostly ignores him and certainly does not need him to enact her own doomed fate. Guillem holds the stage with mesmeric authority. No romance for her, Tchaikovsky notwithstanding. Guillem is a modern heroine who could perform the role persuasively in a leotard. In fact, theater artist Robert Wilson is only semispoofing when he talks of a Swan Lake in which she would play all the roles...
Most senior officials in Washington believe that none of the nearly 2,300 American MIAs still unaccounted for in Southeast Asia are alive. Officials are reluctant to say that publicly because it might make them seem unresponsive to the anguish of families still uncertain about the fate of their loved ones -- and because they just might be wrong. An unreleased 1986 report by Lieut. General Eugene Tighe, former director of the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA), concluded that some MIAs could be alive...
...Cuba Gooding Jr.) is sustained by the example of a strong father, while his best friends, brothers Doughboy (Ice Cube, the rapper) and Ricky (Morris Chestnut), are betrayed by the lack of such a man. Singleton is aware that the ghetto is the chanciest of universes where one's fate can be determined by a moment's loss of temper. Or by standing on the wrong corner at the wrong time. Even in its warmest moments, there is a fearful chill in this hood's air. And on the hearts of its boyz...
...geography is destiny, the fate of France would assuredly seem blessed. A temperate climate and gentle, well-watered terrain have contrived down the ages to produce a civilization sans pareil. It is a culture abrim with connoisseurs of the good life and nature's bounty. Charles de Gaulle, father of the Fifth Republic, used to cite France's prodigious number of cheeses -- 265 by his reckoning -- as an example of the land's lavish variety. Some benighted souls across the Channel may still believe God is an Englishman, but the French have never doubted that heaven is their home...
...itself. Dumb luck makes him an epic hero. Every country his armies confront submits without battle. Then comes disaster just as abrupt and irrational: his soldiers all march into the Indus River and drown. The man of action, it turns out, is as storm tossed on the seas of fate as any man of thought -- and far less equipped to handle the swings of fortune. Any parallels to George Bush and the gulf war are obviously intentional...