Word: fatalism
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...desert, she is Antonioni's hope for life, partly because of her pure responses (feeling "at home" in the desert) but also simply because she survives the course of the film. Mark may be the first white militant in Commercial Narrative Film, but he is marked by impotence and fatal lack of vision; his response to the desert is that it is dead, i. e. safe, and his irrational behavior chains him to the past-the illogical first third of the film. When Daria drives out of frame at the end of Zabriskie Point, the camera pans to a lurid...
...disabling rib injury to Dean Sheppard and a loss by Jim Abbott at unlimited proved fatal Saturday afternoon in the IAB as the Harvard wrestling team lost a 21-14 decision to Yale...
...legitimate side of the street. He had a deal with National Football League investigators to tip them about point spreads, possible fixes and tampering with games (TIME, Aug. 22). Mor? recently, he may have been tempted to cooperate with Government agents. Such a double life can be dangerous -even fatal. Last month, old No. 11 vanished. His lawyers have not heard from him, and he is "off the boards," or out of the play, in the betting world. Two weeks ago he forfeited a $10,000 bond by failing to appear for his trial on forgery charges in Atlanta...
Radioactivity, of course, is an acknowledged laboratory risk. Since it was discovered in 1896, hundreds of scientists and technicians have been affected by various kinds of acute radiation poisoning, whose signs range from nausea and loss of hair to fatal blood diseases. But Levine's case, though hardly as serious, is highly unusual. He is one of the few people thus far who have been contaminated by americium, a man-made element that is being increasingly used by industry in smoke detectors, calibrators and antistatic devices...
Profound points are few and often ludicrous, but perhaps one may be ventured here. Re?ization of the world's complexity-that no policy or ideology is right-are sometimes fatal thoughts for a would-be activist. Ignorance, and not knowledge, makes political bliss...