Word: crash
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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There were some troublesome practical considerations too. Some of the still traumatized survivors of the horrible C-5A crash (TIME, April 14) were put aboard airplanes the very next day. Some skeptics wondered whether all the new adoptive parents would be comfortable with the psychological and financial burden they had taken on, and would be capable of catering to the special needs of children from another culture. The rush to save the Vietnamese children also raised questions about Americans' humanitarian priorities: there are at least 100,000 orphans in the U.S.-many of them members of racial minorities, physically...
...fund-raising party for the Black Panthers C) A Separate Peace. D) the first topless bathing suit. E) the first moon-walk. F) Catch-22. G) The first heart transplant. H) Telstar. I) The Northeast power failure J) The Great Profetarian Cultural Revolution and Bob Dylan's motorcycle crash...
...basic humanitarian gesture had ended in disaster, the result of yet another failure of the American technology and know-how that a decade ago had been billed as the key to the country's salvation. High U.S. Air Force officials suspected that sabotage might have caused the C-5A crash, not faulty technology. Whatever the cause, for Americans last week the mournful events in Viet Nam represented the disintegration of a long and painful effort. For South Vietnamese they represented far more: the virtual loss of social cohesion and political identity as the last vestiges of normal life disappeared...
...honor that Peter Townshend wrote the "rock opera," Tommy. For us, this passivity is good advice at the movie's end, after what we've been through: a series of events so brazen and bewildering that judgement or evaluation has no place. After a horrible plane crash kills Tommy's war hero father, his mother (Ann-Margret, with much cleavage and little voice) remarries only to be walked in on late at night by the scarred figure of Husband I, thought dead. Husband II murders him, and little Tommy sees the whole thing. Then director Russell positions us at Tommy...
...certainly not a youth picture, and it hardly seems the sort of thing that would induce Mom and Dad to spring for a sitter and a night on the town. Maybe the producers were trying to crash the senior-citizens market, give the old folks a thrill and a little grue some encouragement against the insults of aging. A notion like that conjures up entertaining visions of audiences full...