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...scene in Twilight Zone: The Movie was meant to be a powerful climax: Actor Vic Morrow slogging across a river with a child under each arm as bombs exploded and a helicopter hovered overhead. Instead, the chopper crashed, killing Morrow and the two children and resulting in the first criminal trial of a film director for an accident on a movie set. Los Angeles Prosecutor Lea Purwin D'Agostino charged Director John Landis and four others with involuntary manslaughter. After an emotional nine-month trial, the jury last week acquitted all five defendants. "The jury trial is America...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Law: Twilight Zone: The Verdict | 6/8/1987 | See Source »

...fondly Dewitt remembers that one summer when he threw his gear on the back of his Harley chopper and took off across the country in search of "it." What "it" was Dewitt did not know, but it seemed to be cropping up everywhere. Some people were "with it." Others were hopelessly "out of it." Young people everywhere were "doing it," while those adroit with their hands were apparently "making it." For a full year, Dewitt drove, searching for this priceless commodity, pausing only to read a passage from Zen And The Art Of Motorcycle Maintenance (no help for a busted...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Captain America and Billy Dewitt | 4/30/1987 | See Source »

...lost in 22 starts dating back to 1983. In 40 openings over three injury-prone years, he and the Bears are 36-4, and Ditka is as galled as several of the players. The thought of Mad McMahon riding to the season's rescue on his black chopper does not thrill anyone, especially the coach. "I don't believe you're really that hurt," Ditka told McMahon straight out before the diagnosis. "He's been Sybil-izing a lot lately," McMahon yawned, a coded reference to a multiple personality. "Why would I not want to throw a football? I have...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Mac Is Back: Pass It On | 12/1/1986 | See Source »

Witt, meanwhile, flirted with the first no-hitter in playoff history, holding the Red Sox hitless for 5-2/3 innings before Wade Boggs beat out an infield chopper to third for a single. The hit broke a string of 16 straight batters retired by Witt after walkingBoggs, the major league batting champion, leadingoff the first...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Red Sox Blasted, 8-1 | 10/8/1986 | See Source »

Witt walked Owen with two outs in the sixth,snapping his string of 16 consecutive battersretired. Boggs followed with his high chopper toDeCinces, who fielded it while charging from thirdbut had no play...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Red Sox Blasted, 8-1 | 10/8/1986 | See Source »

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