Word: accidentally
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The train was 34 minutes late, timing that in the end proved fatal. At 2:50 a.m. Amtrak's Sunset Limited reached the wood-and-steel span over Big Bayou Canot in Alabama. It had crossed the bridge dozens of times since its Los Angeles-to-Miami route was inaugurated...
There was plenty to get upset about. Two years of unusually cloudy weather cast a pall over the entire operation. The hummingbirds died, and so did the finches. The bees failed to pollinate the squash, and mites feasted on the beans and white potatoes. One crew member, Jane Poynter, lost...
As he does in his bleak, spare novels, screenwriter Ian McEwan uses very simple means to establish an air of menace. The death of a neighborhood dog, a spectacular multivehicle auto accident, the near death of Henry's little sister in an ice-skating incident -- Henry's role in all...
Some people get their brainstorms while singing in the shower. Boris Popov had his during a death-defying plunge in a crashing hang-glider. "I was about 500 ft. up over Lake Owasso," says the Minnesota businessman of the 1977 accident. A powerboat that was towing his craft over the...
Unfortunately, the other star, film actor Peter MacNicol (Sophie's Choice), seems irredeemably phony. That results partly from the writing -- he plays a big-time liar in the first piece, a sculptor equally duplicitous in work and love in the second -- and partly from unconvincing accents and tatty wigs. The...