Word: fatalism
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...audiences tend to watch the performance more than the person, and the actors are all too conscious of this. They get isolated laughs with the delivery of individual lines, instead of letting their humorousness emerge slowly. In a comedy of characters, rather than one of wit, this can be fatal. Darryl Palmer's Medvedenko, for example, never becomes more than a caricatured schoolteacher: we never feel his pain...
Would he really do it? "France will look twice before making a fatal move," declared Le Monde, pointing out that thanks to the Treaty of Rome, French industrialists have broken with a long tradition of protectionism and have been building industrial strength on a multinational scale-the only way to meet American competition. Yet Premier Georges Pompidou was quoted by friends as saying, "Nous partirons." He could of course be talking of a limited departure-perhaps absence from sessions of The Six for a few weeks...
When the kidneys fail to work and there is no hope of starting them up again, the resulting uremia is fatal in about three weeks. A hospital would seem to be the only place where victims could get adequate care. Hundreds of hospitals are equipped with artificial kidneys which are costly to install, even more costly to operate. For each of the 100 U.S. patients who regularly get lengthy treatments, usually twice a week, the cost is $10,000 a year. But now the artificial kidney is moving out of the hospital, into the home. It promises to cut costs...
...more loss will just about finish the Harvard soccer team in the race for the Ivy League championship. The same applies to Princeton. Even a tie in today's game at Princeton would be near fatal for both squads...
...uterus used to be the most common site of fatal cancer in women. Today, thanks mainly to early detection with the Papanicolaou smear, it is far less deadly. "With 44,000 new cases expected next year, there will be an estimated 14,000 deaths. The A.C.S. believes that an annual "Pap" smear test for all 58 million women...