Word: crash
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...forensics team was working to help identify bodies. The agency was called to the scene Sunday night after reports of an explosion before the crash...
...hits and a fatal plane crash. How many films can be squeezed out of this formula? O.K., The Buddy Holly Story and Patsy Cline's Sweet Dreams were good movies. But . . . La Bamba? Ritchie Valens was only 17 when he, Holly and J.P. ("Big Bopper") Richardson died in 1959. His music is surely worth remembering; his life is hardly worth dramatizing. So Writer-Director Luis Valdez shapes facts into fable. Valens' family is a chicano caricature; death forever stalks our shooting star; chunky Ritchie is made over into winsome Lou Diamond Phillips. Even the music (by Los Lobos) sounds thin...
That sort of mayoral derring-do has become routine for Flynn, an athletic 48. Since he was elected in 1983, he has rescued a woman from an office fire, been first on the scene of an early-morning plane crash, and plucked a man from a wrecked car near city hall. Though critics carp that Flynn's heroics amount to headline grabbing as he prepares for a second-term bid this November, the mayor vows that he will continue helping citizens in need. Says he: "I'll do it again whenever a situation arises, and never mind the fallout...
...reader already knows: humorists are not a sunny breed. They pick up their tribulations by the wrong end, and that provokes mirth. But after the audience leaves, the anguish remains. Perelman's boon companion and brother- in-law, Novelist Nathanael West (Miss Lonelyhearts), died young (36) in a car crash. Perelman never fully recovered from the blow, nor did his wife Laura, who descended into alcoholism. Many of his best letters deal obliquely with the disappointments he felt with his family and his work: he did not write a full-length book or earn a big payday in Hollywood...
...incidents have very different causes, even if they both represent gross negligence. The first was clearly a case of an irresponsible driver unable to control an unsafe situation, which she herself had created. The crash raised questions about PBH and the safety measures it insisted upon (or didn't insist upon) when transporting young children from the inner cities to day camps activities. Indeed, the incident signalled serious mismanagement within the North Yard's PBH headquarters...