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PHOENIX: Rescuers are trying to make their way through fresh snow to the possible site of a crash of a missing Air Force military jet. Ever since Captain Craig Button's A-10 attack jet broke formation and disappeared over the Colorado mountains last week, loaded with 450-pound bombs, speculation has had it that the 32- year old pilot might have stolen the plane. New reports from skiers near New York mountain in the Rockies that they saw a black cloud and heard a loud noise are fueling rumors that the plane crashed there. The Air Force theory that...
Once the home of John Barrymore, Eddie Cantor and Fanny Brice, 42nd Street began to decline with the Crash of 1929, which bankrupted a number of the theater owners, turning legitimate stages into burlesque houses and movie theaters. Even in Giuliani's youth questionable entertainments were a staple (the future mayor could have paid to see a man eat live mice at Hubert's Museum and Flea Circus). The postwar exodus of the city's middle class continued the block's slow skid into porndom...
...neat irony, then, that the crash of 1987 is in great part responsible for 42nd Street's rebirth as a middle-class destination. Earlier in the decade the city and state agreed on an ambitious $2.5 billion redevelopment plan for 42nd Street and Times Square, the driving force of which was to be four mammoth, nearly identical office towers designed by Philip Johnson and John Burgee as a kind of chilly Rockefeller Center South. Fortunately for fans of Times Square's higgledy-piggledy aesthetic, the late-'80s economic downturn pulled the rug out from under that plan. And there...
...recent New Yorker review, Anthony Lane describes the movie Crash as "bare-assed philosophy." NPR commentator David Sedaris' new book of humorous essays, Naked, delivers glimpses of, so to speak, a philosophy of the bare...
...three days of the Easter weekend, the stock market gauge had been frozen at 140 below. No sooner did the markets reopen Monday than traders lopped another 157.11 points from the Dow, for the sixth-largest drop in stock market history and the heaviest two-day loss since the Crash of 87. And yet . . . the market is nearly three times as high as it was then, and even the bracing plunges of the last two trading days comprised only a 4.3 percent drop in values, where the 508-point drop of October 19,1987 represented a 22.6 percent drop...