Word: fates
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...competent is the key word for Cruzan, 32, who survives only by being fed through an abdominal tube and who is not able to think or speak about her fate. Her parents argued that she had told a friend not long before the crash that she would not want to live unless "she could live at least halfway normally," but the lower court ruled that this evidence was "unreliable" and "insufficient...
...angry about the fate of the Meech Lake accord...
...which insisted that Randall -- and their misery -- had its source in my mother's wackiness and should be struggled against, fought, cured? Or the annunciations, which said, in effect, that Randall was holy, that the failure was my father's in not accepting what was a given, what was fate...
Randall's fate is that he is seldom more than a wobbly focus of contention around which Miller examines the enigmas of matrimonial and blood ties. The breakup of the Eberhardt marriage and the difficulties of the children as they come of age in the counterculture 1960s and self-absorbed '70s are plausible with or without the issue of autism. In fact, when Miller is at her most perceptive and sympathetic, Randall, Bettelheim and Freud seem incidental baggage to this otherwise affecting family novel about changing values and resilient affections...
...tells her, "Have yourself a merry little isthmus." Got all that? Oh, yes, and Clementine became President when her running mate, the victorious Democratic candidate, was brained by a fish (no assassination, just a 13-lb. porgy ex machina sucked up by a waterspout and dumped on him by fate and a desperate author...