Word: crashing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...marry her. She greets his initial proposal with one of those speeches about pity that seem to be required by films like this the way a western needs a Shootout. In the end, she changes her mind-but when he flies to join her, Buek dies in a crash. It is some indication of the hollowness of The Other Side of the Mountain that this piece of real personal tragedy comes out looking like the last desperate invention of a weary and rather mechanical scenarist. It has been said-probably too often -that life is a bad movie. By that...
...Christina's only brother, Alexander Onassis, was killed in a plane crash at Athens airport. One year later, Christina's mother, who had followed her sister's example by marrying Stavros Niarchos, died mysteriously of pulmonary edema. Finally, Ari himself succumbed to bronchial pneumonia in Paris earlier this year. "I think she wanted to make a complete break with the past," says Baron de Rosnay of Christina's unexpected wedding...
...upset that he went back to New York without ever seeing them. This time, according to a New York City police report, he registered at the Statler Hotel along with Robert Lashbrook and went to Room 1018A. At 3:20 a.m., the police said, Lashbrook was awakened by the crash of shattering glass. The window on the Seventh Avenue side was broken, and Olson's body was ten stories below...
...President's robustly handsome second eldest son is undergoing an introductory crash course in policymaking at the White House, where he took up residence in the family quarters last month. Beginning this week with a trip to California, Jack will start to work on the hustings as a full-time campaign aide. Among other duties, Jack will help line up delegates pledged to his father, probably concentrating on young newcomers to convention politics. The question of a salary is still a minor economic issue in the simon-pure campaign that Ford is determined to run. "I'll work...
...also based on the gold standard. Hong Kong Senior Inspector Richard Chan is a heroic young pro whose district is the last resting place of a 24-karat fortune. The loot has been missing since 1945, when the Fascist collaborator Subhas Chandra Bose perished in an air crash. Bird-dogging the musty trail of the treasure, Detective Chan takes on a slew of Oriental cutthroats, as well as the colonial snobs who disdainfully regard him as a subgumshoe. Ceylonese Author Owen Cela is obviously no stranger to the refractions of cultural prejudice or to the vagaries of modern criminals...