Word: crashing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...crucial, finally crushing problem with The Last Tycoon, however, is that it half credits some of the most insubstantial legends of Hollywood. The movie does improve Fitzgerald's convoluted plans for ending the novel, which required a murder and a plane crash. Here, Stahr is swallowed up in the looming darkness of a sound stage. It is a lovely, but treacherously romantic image. In effect, Kazan and Pinter turn their own movie into another part of Stahr's dream. The movie is about the sad solitude that power brings, the high price of genius. These are shallow, narcissistic...
...town, a lonely concrete boundary marker wished us PLEASANT JOURNEY. We then passed the memorial to Rhodesia's pioneers, who trekked the same route in 1890 to establish "Fort Vic" as the colony's first permanent white settlement. Twenty miles south of Fort Victoria, our escorts donned crash helmets and goggles and manned their machine guns, mostly water-cooled Brownings, capable of firing 1,200 to 1,500 rounds a minute. For the next 100 miles they remained tensely alert as the terrain changed...
That Hearnes was even running was the result of a tragedy: the attractive, popular Democratic primary winner, Rep. Jerry Litton, died with his family in the crash of a small plane carrying them to a victory celebration. As a fillin, Hearnes, who had been a distant second in the primary, looked like a loser from the start. He had only about $151,000 in campaign funds for the battle with Danforth, who spent $600,000. Forced to scrimp, Hearnes served as his own campaign manager, advance man, and even driver...
...Argentina, since last March's military coup seven priests, two seminarians and three nuns have been murdered by suspected right-wing death squads with ties to the police. In addition, a bishop who was investigating the murders was killed in a suspicious automobile crash...
That he survived was remarkable; what followed was more remarkable still. Two weeks after the crash, he left the hospital for his farm near Salzburg. With the help of a physical therapist, he worked himself back into shape. Precisely six weeks after his accident, he entered the Italian Grand Prix at Monza and finished fourth. But first had come a terrifying practice round. Said Lauda: "It was raining, really horrible conditions, and I had to go out to see if I could still do my work. The car was aquaplaning. I was really scared and I stopped. But the next...