Word: fatalism
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...about the dangerous lessons we teach kids. But the Big Themes are squashed right from the start under the weight of a ponderous and highly improbable story line. First Bache (George C. Scott) pulls a pistol during a townie-cadet brawl, eventually killing a local and suffering a fatal heart attack himself. Then, instead of packing up and heading for the shore, the youthful commandos decide to honor their fallen leader and the school he loved by declaring war on the outside world. Needless to say, they stumble upon a secret cache of sophisticated weaponry, which Bache had kept...
...territorial agreement, the Genovese and Bonanno factions held a council "sitdown" to hear the dispute. Masselli argued that he had simply foreclosed on bad loans. The council absolved him of infringing on a Bonanno jurisdiction. Salvatore (Sally Blind) Frascone, a Bonanno soldier specializing in vending machines, made the fatal mistake of continuing to protest the pro-Masselli decision. Frascone was openly executed in October 1978 by Mob hit men as he got out of his car in The Bronx...
...return to the sunbaked spirit of the original Prosper Mérimée novella. Gone are the choruses of soldiers and cigarette girls, as well as most of the opera's secondary characters. Instead, the focus is on the hotheaded Basque dragoon Don José and his fatal passion for the dark-eyed gypsy Carmen. Brook has even given the work a new title: La Tragédie de Carmen...
...distinctions must be made. There are time when exaggerations are highly useful; there are times when they may be fatal. A partial list...
Palazzi said that her team was well aware of Harvard's speed and breakaway potential demonstrated in earlier games this season. For this reason, the Crusaders maintained an impenetrable full court press throughout the entire contest--a strategy which proved fatal to the Harvard offense...