Word: fatalism
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...refreshing that the New York City Opera has a new version (performances till November) that plays it straight. It helps to have a Carmen who dominates the stage, and Sharon Graham, a young American, scores high. With a fluid, supple mezzo, she revels in the gypsy girl's fatal craving for freedom and her dance toward death, but she avoids phony flourish. More will be heard from Graham, starting with a PBS broadcast of Cavalleria Rusticana on Sept...
None of this, of course, is conclusive. Friendly crowds and sunny poll numbers can be a fatal August illusion. But for now, the mood of the Clinton campaign is a kind of dazed humility at the wondrous workings of fate. Says campaign manager David Wilhelm, who originally dreamed up the notion of putting the Clinton campaign on wheels: "I'd love to be able to say that we knew it would strike this chord. It just isn't true...
...problem shared by Single White Female and Raising Cain, two new evil- twin horror movies, is that the characters in them apparently haven't seen any movies. Just by having caught Fatal Attraction, Allie Jones (Bridget Fonda) in Single White Female could have avoided a lot of the grief she suffers at the hands of her roommate-from-hell Hedy (Jennifer Jason Leigh). If Hedy's possessive rages hadn't given Allie a hint, the dead pet would have. And in Raising Cain, none of the cops has seen Psycho. Otherwise they might have been suspicious of that tall creature...
...variety that was accidentally imported from Japan in 1985 and has since spread to 21 states, mostly in the Southeast. Government scientists announced last month that a group of these mosquitoes in Florida had been found to be carrying the virus for Eastern equine encephalitis, a rare but often fatal brain disease. Only 11 Floridians have caught this disease, and health officials see no reason for panic, but mosquito control has taken on a new urgency...
Fine. To mine your own history is one thing. But to exploit your family is quite another. Gore brought tears to the eyes of millions with the invocation of his sister's death and his son's near fatal car accident. Clinton matched him with his father's fatal car accident and his mother's cancer. In between, a 14-minute Clinton bio had him telling the world of 12-year-old daughter Chelsea watching Dad's TV confession to "causing pain in my marriage" and then extending an intimate daughterly exoneration -- reported to millions...