Word: fatalism
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...broadcast monitored in San Salvador, the rebels' clandestine Radio Venceremos said it will call for the travel ban later in the week--they did not name a date--in response to the fatal shooting Monday of Herbert Ernesto Anaya, the commission president...
...first 10 minutes of the second half proved fatal for the Crimson, as Northeastern converted two Harvard penalties to take a 12-3 lead...
...Green fumbled the ball eight times. Even though Dartmouth only lost two of the them, its inability to hold on to the ball proved frustrating--and fatal. The Green's slippery fingers put the offense out of sync. You can't move the ball when you don't have it in your hands...
...with a woman you work with, and maybe she dies. These are New Hollywood's scary metaphors for sex in the high-risk '80s. Last year The Fly said that a woman could get involved with a nice guy who metamorphoses into a slavering insect. The current hit Fatal Attraction preaches that no man is safe from a fling who gets flung: her jealousy cuts like a knife. Scott's film, cooler, less apocalyptic, says only this: Know your place -- Manhattan or Queens, restlessness or security -- and stay in it. Alien worlds should never collide...
While running for President about a century ago, Grover Cleveland bumped into what might have been a fatal problem -- the public charge that he had fathered an illegitimate son by a tall, pretty widow, Maria Halpin, manager of the cloak department in a Buffalo store. To modern Americans accustomed to politics as show biz, it may be surprising to learn that Cleveland survived the scandal by acknowledging paternity and giving his organization a simple order: "Tell the truth...