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befall
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In Hershey, I remember the feeling like someone was dribbling ice water down my back: This was a crowd gleeful about the harm that could befall me and my friends.
With his book “Brothers,” Alex has written an elegy to Eddie, and their complex dynamic that was tested by drug abuse, power trips and all the other common traps that befall megastars who once shared the same bedroom.
The apparent assassination plot is the second such incident to befall Trump this year.
Thus, Kripke needed something “apocalyptic” to befall the characters.
“It’s got to be hot sex — that’s what makes people do crazy, dangerous things. You can stay home alone in your room with your cats, and none of this will ever befall you — but if you step out and go into that world, you’re going to have to deal with those consequences. But it’s worth the risk. That’s the point of the movie: Still do that, err on that side, even if there’ll be a little body count at the end of it.”
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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