Word: fatalism
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...from quiet critical successes into noisy exercises in film going chic. Most of the people who saw and admired My Night at Maud's several years back will probably see and admire La Salamandre. This is all very well, both films should be seen, but overpraise can be as fatal as underattendance. For as fully realized and as refreshing as is La Salamandre, it is not the original and important work advance notice would have us believe. It breaks no new stylistic ground, it raises no new thematic questions, it solves no old ones. All the best things...
...dramatically as she lived, when her long scarf became caught in the wheel of a moving car and strangled her. A one-in-a-million fluke? Not quite. Flowing neckwear has been in style recently, and according to an article in the A.M.A. Journal, so have freakish-and often fatal-injuries. In one of eleven cases studied, a teen-age girl suffered severe facial cuts and bruises when her scarf snagged in the wheel of her boy friend's motorcycle. An eleven-year-old boy whose scarf caught in the engine of his snowmobile was saved only by prompt...
...indifference could only please Richard Nixon, whose own campaign may not be exciting anyone, but it commands such a lead that his only concern is to preserve the status quo. It is bad news for George McGovern, who is in dire need of igniting some fires, of conquering the fatal idea that the 1972 election is a foregone conclusion...
Contamination. The blood business is dangerous. Tests for hepatitis, a sometimes fatal liver ailment that is becoming increasingly prevalent among the group that sells blood commercially, are not always reliable. Dr. Charles Edwards, head of the Food and Drug Administration, believes that contaminated blood, most of it from commercial banks, is responsible for 1,500 to 3,000 hepatitis deaths in the U.S. each year...
...Beach, Calif., for instance, is working on a portable chemical laser (which produces a beam from the energy released in the reaction of two or more chemicals) that could be carried into battle by a unit of only three men. Aimed like a rifle, it would silently burn a fatal, quarter-inch-wide hole in the body of an enemy soldier up to five miles away. "Once you've got him in your sights," says a TRW engineer, "you've got him. There are no misses...