Word: crashing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...lion's share of these diverse interests will go to his surviving child, Daughter Christina Onassis, 24; a cadre of other relatives and associates will assist her in managing her father's byzantine business operations. After Alexander's death in a plane crash at age 24 two years ago, Onassis had been deeply concerned about who would mind his stores; he had urged Christina to marry Shipping Heir Peter Goulandris, 30, and reportedly the pair pledged at his deathbed to wed later this year...
Dark Mood. The movie does not state this message directly. Instead, it sifts through a succession of exquisitely made thrill sequences. Early on, the mood is farcical: Waldo loosening the wheels of a rival barnstormer so that he must crash-land in a pond; Waldo disastrously trying to perfect the crowd pleasing trick of transferring from moving car to low-flying plane by means of a suspended rope ladder...
Life changed dramatically for Onassis two years ago, when his son Alexander, then 24, was killed in a plane crash. "He aged overnight," observed a close associate. "He suddenly became an old man." In business negotiations he was uncharacteristically absentminded, irrational and petulant...
PICTURE A STOCK market crash. Stock brokers and financiers jumping out of windows. And a run on the banks. Those waiting lines at Harvard Trust getting longer and longer, stretching out into the Square--a massive crowd grasping for its money--so many jammed together that you can't turn yourself enough to see the face of the person behind you. But you take it, because after you can escape the crush and press of the masses and find open spaces like the Yard or the bank of the Charles, or go to your room and shut out the world...
...outbursts. That undiplomatic trait may stand McCloskey in good stead when he tries to tell his boss a thing or two about dealing with a Congress that is determined, as they say on the Hill, to be in on the takeoffs of U.S. foreign policy as well as the crash landings...