Word: fatalism
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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Such problematical openings are often fatal on Broadway, but Makarova and Company is hardly typical fare. For one thing, this program was only the first of four. Still to come are the world premiere of Barry Moreland's Ondine and the first performance outside the Soviet Union of Maya Murdma's Studies. Even balletomanes who were troubled by the uneven debut will probably be lured back by the curiosities ahead...
...initial signs include high fever, diarrhea, vomiting and dizziness, followed by a sunburn-like rash with peeling of skin, especially on the hands and feet. There may also be a sharp drop in blood pressure and, in severe cases, fatal shock. The bacterium may be carried into the vagina during insertion of the absorbent pluglike devices. Rely may be doing its job all too well. It may be creating an ideal breeding ground for the staph bacterium...
...more than 40 years ago, tampons have been a liberating force for women, allowing them to wear more revealing clothing, to participate in such sports as swimming and generally to act more freely during menstruation. Now these products, used by 50 million women, have been linked to a sometimes fatal disorder called toxic-shock syndrome (TSS). Last week one of the more popular brands, Procter & Gamble's Rely, was recalled from the market. and the Food and Drug Administration issued a strong warning against...
...difficult enigmas with intelligence and straightforwardness which, perhaps, when you comprehend. As Alexis de Tocqueville wrote after he crossed this great land, "Americans have all a lively faith in the perfectability of man, they judge that the diffusion of knowledge must necessarily be advantageous, and the consequences of ignorance fatal; they all consider society as a body in a state of improvement, humanity as a changing scene, in which nothing is, or ought to be, permanent, and they admit that what appears to them today to be good, may be superseded by something better tomorrow...
What about "Blue Valentine?" "She went out one night without me and got in a fatal accident," he murmurs. "Luckily, no one was hurt." Instead, befitting his new line of work, Waits rolls down the boulevards in the safe anonymity of a rented sky-blue Monte Carlo...