Word: fatalism
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...play suffers from what Evelyn Waugh termed "fatal charm"; the skillfully textured hodgepodge of images which make up Out Out are particularly disappointing in the end because, to start with, they're so appealing--what advertising execs call "sexy". The cast, the audience, the designers too clearly want this work to be something special, but their creation works only in patches...
...star performer, Nastassia has set a pattern for her affairs: love beautifully, leave quickly. "I always fall in love while I'm working on a film," she says. "It's such an intense thing, being absorbed into the world of a movie. It's like discovering you have a fatal illness, with only a short time to live. So you live and love twice as deeply. Then you slip out of it, like a snakeskin, and you're cold and naked. What worries me is that when these loves die, they hardly leave traces on me. I wonder...
...Tunisia. Amid all this frenetic travel, whose purpose only the P.L.O. chairman himself could fathom, Arafat studiously managed to avoid going back to Jordan, where he had been engaged in intense discussions with King Hussein a week earlier. By not doing so, he dealt a crippling and possibly fatal blow to the bold Middle East peace plan that Ronald Reagan had proposed last September...
...Bronx district attorney's office have isolated a new cause of death that they've dubbed Lincolnitis. Named after Lincoln Hospital, an understaffed mainstay of its South Bronx neighborhood, Lincolnitis is said to afflict a wide range of patients who expire at Lincoln after entering with less-than-fatal maladies...
That name historically fixes the meeting around 1130 B.C., on a special occasion called the Night of the Pig, when the truth is to be spoken by all parties regardless of rank and with no fear of the consequences that could make honest talk fatal the rest of the year. What the Pharaoh wants to hear is the life stories of the elder Menenhetet, who has discovered a means of self-propagation by dying during the act of intercourse and transferring himself to his lover's womb. Menenhetet warns: "My story must be long like the length...