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...been accused of being first too complacent and then too alarmist about Viet Nam, of being insufficiently sensitive and too gullible concerning the counterculture of the '60s, of being first casual and then over-zealous about Watergate. Such indictments have come from within and without the craft, often at a pitch intended to shatter glass...
...less dramatic imagery, the point is that most critics I know--all too often myself included--simply lose sight of, or lack the perspective to see themselves in relation to, the craft they purport to criticize, and the artists who make that craft come alive. That's not to say that all works succeed as art (or are even intended as art), or that all filmmakers are good artists--but to limit ourselves to making entertaining copy or personal judgments is to do a disservice to art, to the intellect, and to ourselves. It's not that anything is necessarily...
...Until the crash, both the DC-10 and its maker had enjoyed high reputations. The DC-10 went into service in August 1971, and had a safety record above average for a relatively new aircraft. Thirty-one airlines now fly a total of 128 DC-10s; passengers praise the craft as spacious and quiet, and the FAA says that they are all safe (the agency finally issued its airworthiness directive about cargo doors on March 6, three days after the Turkish Airlines disaster...
...door, installing a window in the door so that a ground-crew member could tell if the latch hooks were properly engaged and posting locking instructions clearly in English. Tragically, as French investigators discovered last week, the ground crewman who sealed the door on the Turkish Airlines craft could not read...
...woman. A UFO? Hallucination? Not at all. The source was the Albuquerque police department's "spy in the sky" plane on a routine patrol. "It scared the world out of us," the man said later. "It reminded us of George Orwell's 1984." The low-flying craft operates by daylight too. A woman complained that she could no longer sunbathe on her roof because the plane kept circling overhead...