Word: crash
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...wonders where struggling beginners will get the means to do it for the camera. "If new bands have to worry about the cost of making a record, and also about making a video, how is that going to weigh out? What about the few who get a lucky crash on a video and sell a record-how much does that have to do with the record itself...
...government of President Hafez Assad: for every Syrian strike against American forces, such as the previous day's firing on U.S. reconnaissance planes, expect a strike in return. Unfortunately, delivering the message proved costly: two planes lost, one pilot killed, one captured, a Lebanese woman dead in the crash of one of the fighter-bombers. The air attack also sent a number of unintended messages. It told the Lebanese that the U.S. armed forces are neither invincible nor invulnerable. It told the Israelis that the newly revived concept of "strategic cooperation" between Washington and Jerusalem means that Israel should stay...
...robbed of its capacity either to instruct or to move. Unable to prove a corporate conspiracy against Silkwood, or even individual violence by someone whose job was threatened by investigations, the movie must content itself with showing, without comment, mysterious headlights appearing behind her car just before the crash. And then admit, on a concluding title card, that an autopsy revealed a large amount of tranquilizers as well as a small amount of alcohol in the system of this demonstrably unstable woman. This is the most significant set of contradictory implications in a movie that is a tissue of them...
Last year's spectacular crash of the Souk al-Manakh, Kuwait's unofficial stock market, has also had a depressing effect. More than $90 billion in debts was outstanding when the wildly speculative market collapsed. While the Kuwaiti government has moved to bail out small investors, losses are still widely felt. "The debacle has cast a terrible shadow over business in the gulf," notes one foreign observer...
...mechanic at a General Electric plant in Pittsfield, had four children of her own and took in two foster children. Tragedy seems to have stalked her: her mother left home when Palano was nine, she lost a daughter to cancer and she suffered a spinal injury in an auto crash, which forced her to spend her life on crutches. None of this has stopped her from going back to school, first to a community college and then, in 1980, transferring to Smith's innovative degree program for older women. For three days a week Palano lives on campus, taking...