Word: beginnings
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...investigating some 50 people--maintenance workers, food handlers and members of cleaning crews--who were in or near the TWA jet during its New York layover to see if any one of them could have planted a device. FBI agents will also begin screening any cargo shippers that may have sent boxes on the plane...
...late afternoon sky is as solemn as it was in the morning. The town is quieter than yesterday. Tonight people will begin to wean themselves from the disaster reports and tune in to the excessively happy opening ceremonies of the Olympics in Atlanta. Flipping between channels, they will occupy antipodal worlds. Come the weekend, they will take their boats out on the bay, and eventually they will speak less and less of Wednesday night...
...mess, and the sidewalks became a flea market, but Atlanta seemed genuinely happy and gracious about welcoming the world. The City Too Busy to Hate was also too busy to wring its hands over the horrific tragedy of TWA Flight 800. The security presence was so large to begin with, some 30,000 strong, that added measures were hardly noticed. The safety concern manifested itself mainly as an added line of questioning at press conferences. Worries about the heat were diminished by bearable (92û) temperatures, and the threat of thunderstorms on Friday evening gave way to clear skies...
Some professors and administrators maintain that Harvard can sometimes give spouses the inside edge on certain jobs, but only if they are qualified for those positions to begin with...
...Where to begin? There's Bannister, pseudo-Andie-MacDowell, and her "I'm uptight" uptight health nut husband Ray (Peter Dobson) who dies and must communicate with her by making Fox act like Whoopi Goldberg in "Ghost." There are the people dying, their number inscribed on their foreheads, all at the hands of a flying throw rug. There's the haunted house, its owner, her daughter (Dee Wallace-Stone), and her lover. There's the "real character" of an weird FBI agent (Jeffrey Combs) who, while getting to the bottom of this, has his hair slicked in a horrendous Hitler...