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...Attention...GO.” Instead of the normal SWOOSH of eight blades releasing and the smooth hum of the slides working quickly back up the tracks, I heard a distinct CRASH and then a THUNK. From that sound, I knew, instinctively, that the race was over. There is no breakage rule at Henley. In domestic regattas, if something breaks within the first 150 meters, the race is restarted. Not so across the pond. If anything goes wrong, as it did, our regatta is over...

Author: By Mark A. Adomanis, | Title: Fate and False Starts | 7/8/2005 | See Source »

What is there in Hustle & Flow to fall in love with? Start with Howard, who has a busy rsum, with the UPN series Sparks and the films Dead Presidents and Crash, but here explodes with coiled energy, intelligence and sexuality. To the simple scheme of DJay's redemption, he lends nuance and magnetic power. Ta-da! A star is born...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: It Came From the South | 6/27/2005 | See Source »

...Jewish Museum, and pretty much anywhere else I choose to go. I’ve resigned myself to spending at least an hour each day on a contraption that makes maddeningly frequent stops and drives so fanatically I’m continually convinced we’re about to crash into a eucalyptus...

Author: By Jayme J. Herschkopf, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: An Inadvertent Bus Tour | 6/27/2005 | See Source »

...miles from Philadelphia and uncovered the three bodies. Each man had been shot to death with a .38-caliber weapon; Chaney had been beaten so horribly that a pathologist who performed an autopsy said he had never seen such injuries except in a highspeed auto accident or a plane crash...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Mississippi: A Crime Called Conspiracy | 6/22/2005 | See Source »

...figure of Soviet veneration, Vladimir Ilyich Lenin is ahead of Samantha Smith, but the gap may be narrowing. Since her death in a 1985 plane crash, the name of the Maine schoolgirl, who visited the Soviet Union in 1983 at the invitation of Communist Party Chief Yuri Andropov, has been affixed to a Siberian diamond, a hybrid violet developed in Lithuania, a street in Yalta and a five-kopeck postage stamp. The homage reached new heights last week with the dedication of Mount Samantha Smith, a 13,000-ft. peak in the central Caucasus just north of the Turkish...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Notes: Oct. 20, 1986 | 6/21/2005 | See Source »

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