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...hours. The most precarious moment occurred near the end of the voyage, over western Mexico, when the plane's rear engine, the only one running at the time, temporarily died. Over the next 90 sec., before the front engine was started to compensate for the loss, the craft plummeted from 8,500 ft. to about...
Some American mystery writers pay homage to the past masters of the craft by setting their stories in Britain. The most prominent is Martha Grimes, a sometime teacher of fiction at Johns Hopkins, who ironically was unable to get her work published in Britain until now. Her current offering, I Am the Only Running Footman (Little, Brown; 206 pages; $15.95) -- named, like all her work, for an actual pub -- keenly observes Britain's myriad social classes and offers a persuasive story of family obsession and revenge. Keith Heller attempts the double voyage of writing not only about England but about...
...THERE IS more to Kirkland's descent into drugs than the demands imposed on a dancer's body and emotions. Kirkland is cursed with the fatal possession of an active artistic mind and a drive for perfection. Her attempts to assert her individuality and to practice her craft, she tells us, were received almost universally with contempt by Balanchine and his disciples...
...case of a sedentary koala named Simon, a diffidently proffered claw. The Pope-koala encounter came at Brisbane's Queen Elizabeth II stadium, where the Pontiff obligingly held the animal in his arms before delivering an address to the assembled press on the dignity of their craft...
...People have to make happy clothes," Patrick Kelly says. "There's just too much sadness in the world." In fashion's fractional contribution to the Zeitgeist, he and Ozbek and Gigli have made nonchalance into a high craft, turned zest into a wearable commodity. Spirit does not have shape on a hanger either, but these are three young designers who cut it and fit it like fine fabric, then send it out to play...