Word: crashing
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...help thinking that this sadness is informed by real pain. McEntire has been through divorce and remarriage. She has known true catastrophe: in 1991 seven members of her band were killed in a plane crash. Tragedy, when absorbed and reflected on, can give an artist depth. Some artists seek it, others have it thrust upon them. It's the difference between martyrdom and masochism -- McEntire's scars are earned...
...THIS FOR ALIVE, DIRECTOR FRANK Marshall's version of the Piers Paul Read best seller about a 1972 Andes plane crash that forced its surviving passengers to cannibalism: early on, the movie has a great avalanche. After that, it's all downhill. The acting (Ethan Hawke and Vincent Spano are the stars) starts at a pitch of whiny hysteria and rarely lets up. The dialogue, by ace playwright John Patrick Shanley, sounds as if poorly translated from the Spanish: "What have we done that God now asks us to eat the bodies of our own dead friends?" Dissing aside, that...
...tied to the Iran-Contra scandal. Few people seem to recall that he was secretary of the treasury during the time in which the savings and loan problems mushroomed. And he presided over the precipitous fall of the dollar that culminated in the 1987 stock market crash...
Northwest, for example, barely averted a Chapter 11 crash landing by securing $2.2 billion in new financing and cancellation or delay of a whopping $6.2 billion in orders for new aircraft. And just a week after industry leader American Airlines was forced to let go 576 of its managers, Delta chairman Ronald Allen conceded that layoffs and pay cuts may be necessary at his carrier too. Perhaps the most dramatic evidence of the industry's deepening distress is TWA's decision in effect to call in the cavalry. Chrysler chairman Lee Iacocca, who will retire at the end of this...
WHAT'S THE WORLD COMING TO? FIRST, ASTROPHYSIcists said comets killed the dinosaurs. Then they implicated asteroids in numerous other mass extinctions throughout the earth's history, setting the stage for the awful news in October that the comet Swift-Tuttle might crash into the planet in the year...