Word: crash
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Married Man coasts over this pothole in its plot because of its cushion of intelligence and moral fastidiousness. Author Read is best known in the U.S. as the author of Alive, a nonfiction account of how some Uruguayan survivors of a plane crash in the Andes resorted to cannibalism to survive; his six previous novels, far less sensational, deserve more readers than they have received, and his latest may be his best. No one now writing has achieved quite the same equipoise between malaise and morality, ideas and emotions. In this tale of human imperfectibility, the devil gets...
...clinical ecologist of Alamo, Calif., who is quoted above. His 220-page polemic issues a general alarm about multifarious dangers that lurk in every nook and cranny of contemporary civilization. Even fluorescent lighting, he says, may, in some weird way, weaken the muscles. The book, billed as a "crash course in protecting your health from hidden hazards of modern living," is entitled How to Survive Modern Technology. Anybody with a frail heart might not even survive the book...
...crash, the world's fourth most serious aviation tragedy,* was the third DC-10 disaster this year. It thus raised initial apprehensions about another possible mechanical failure like the faulty engine mounting that caused the U.S.'s worst single air disaster in Chicago last May. However, there was no evidence that the aircraft was defective. Though the exact cause of the crash remained undetermined at week's end, suspicions centered on possible pilot error. Captain Jim Collins, 45, was a flyer of 21 years' experience with a reputation for being "the epitome of a non-risk...
...finally comes home to die. He stops along the way to take a beefcake bath-or in Holden's case, a sirloin splash-in an Australian stream. He also encounters Child Star Ricky Schroder (The Champ), who at nine has just lost mother and father in an automobile crash. What happens next is tearjerking. It also includes kangaroos and wallabies...
...Coquette, The Royal Family, The Front Page, Broadway); in New York City. Born Jacob Horowitz in Vienna, Harris dropped out of Yale and toiled briefly as a press agent for the Shubert brothers before emerging as a theatrical Wunderkind by producing Broadway. Though financially crippled by the stock market crash in 1929, he produced or directed some of the more notable Broadway efforts of the 1930s, including Thornton Wilder's Pulitzer-prizewinning Our Town, A Doll's House with Ruth Gordon and The Green Bay Tree with Laurence Olivier. Harris' memoirs, A Dance on the High Wire...