Word: crash
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...ANGELES--Eighteen University of Southern California (USC) football players--all members of the 1980 Rose Bowl championship team--have failed a special crash course in speech communications because they cheated, their work was very poor, or they did not attend the crash course...
...only concerts we ever missed," recalls Cohen, "was in Rockville, Md., at Thanksgiving. A plane crash had tied up air traffic at the Washington airport, so we decided to drive from New York. There were six lanes of traffic, none of them moving. At Trenton, we tried to switch to a train. Impossible. A storm blew up. We couldn't even phone ahead. When we arrived at the hall it was 9:30 p.m., and there were 30 people left. We played the Mendelssohn D-Minor Trio and told them we'd come back...
There have been other tragic air accidents involving American athletes. In 1961, 18 figure-skating stars, bound for the world championships in Prague, were killed in the crash of a Sabena jet near Brussels. In 1970, 30 members of the Wichita State University football team died when their chartered jet hit a mountainside in Colorado. Seven years later, 14 University of Evansville basketball players, returning home from a game in Nashville, died when their DC-3 crashed on takeoff...
...seems that a new Civil War might break out. Since the story's underpinnings are so weak, the strain on credulity borders on the ridiculous. It is as if an I Love Lucy episode about a lost purse suddenly turned into an overheated melodrama about the stock market crash...
...many agents. Take Ziegler/Diskant Inc. When Independent Producer George Englund came to them with an idea for a story set in gambling casinos, they recruited Paul Erdman (The Crash of 79) to write the novel. A few weeks later, Erdman had contracts worth seven figures from Warner Bros, and Simon & Schuster. He is now feeding a scenarist pages of the novel as he completes them...