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...hard onto a runway in Pensacola, Fla., that the DC-9 broke in two, dragging the rear third of its fuselage nearly a mile. "I looked down and I saw the pavement and stripes going under me," said Kyle Barnhill, who was sitting directly over the 2-ft. crack. None of the plane's 100 passengers and five-member crew were seriously hurt. Eastern executives stoutly defended the plane's maintenance record and the "extensive experience" of the crew but were clearly embarrassed. Photographers were kept away from the damaged plane until an Eastern crew covered the company logo...
...towers and high-tech confections of steel girders and stained glass. Not all are distinctive, but Krzysztof Chwalibog, deputy chairman of the Association of Polish Architects in Warsaw, contends, "This is bringing back good design to Poland." Good workmanship too. Unlike secular Polish buildings, which seem to sag and crack even before completion, most churches are being built to last. The same workmen who rarely worry about right angles for the state are lavishing care on ecclesiastical projects. They are inspired by faith and the commitment of most congregations to pay wages of $200 to $300 a month...
...Patrick Shanley has an ear that confounds cliche and a plot that is both devious and inevitable. As photographed by David Watkin (Out of Africa), Moonstruck is as pristine and fanciful as Lady and the Tramp. As directed by Norman Jewison (A Soldier's Story), it moves with the crack of sexual friction. Jewison has also put together a terrific ensemble of actors. Cher, rag-dolled up in heavy Sicilian eyebrows, relaxes into her most engaging movie role. And Cage has a great time segueing from Stanley Kowalski, absentmindedly scratching himself with his prosthesis, into a Brooklyn Barrymore. Moonstruck proves...
...ARTHUR SULLIVAN: OVERTURES (Nimbus). From Patience to Pinafore, a Savoyard field day with the crack Scottish Chamber Orchestra under Alexander Faris...
...criticism only deepened the resolve of Israel's hard-line Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir to crack down on the rioters. Four thousand soldiers swept through towns and refugee camps, arresting as many as 1,000 Palestinians and carting them off to hastily erected detention centers. Then, in an angry speech in the Knesset, Defense Minister Yitzhak Rabin announced that Israeli soldiers would continue to shoot at the "leaders of disorder, throwers of fire bombs." Rabin added that his men would aim to injure, not kill, but he left little doubt that the government would not tolerate the loss of Israeli...