Word: crashing
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...always assumed we would be dealing in a very volatile market," he says. "I knew there was going to be a downturn. I just didn't know it was going to be as large as it was in Asia." McCarthy, who says he factored a market crash into his plans from the start, may have hit upon the boldest approach to the new global economy: Damn the torpedoes! Full speed ahead...
...Manhattan apartment, to the early '50s--no more than 10 years. The final four years of his life brought a string of pictorial failures and, at best, semi-successes: no talent could survive the alcoholic battering Pollock gave his. And then at age 44, a fatal car crash, after which the rest is the kind of pop hagiology that America reserves for its culture heroes...
Which would you rather watch: a responsible and balanced ABC News report about the tragic but accidental crash of TWA Flight 800--or a stylish, X-Files-like show exposing the bastards who blew her out of the sky, narrated by conspiracy auteur Oliver Stone...
...luck. ABC plans to air a Stone "special" that will probe, among other topics, spooky theories about the 1996 crash (network honchos won't call the project a documentary, since documentaries employ what fuddy-duddies like to call "facts"). Under the working title Oliver Stone's Declassified, the show is tentatively scheduled to air in February and may become a regular series...
Closing time. Oops! Missed the last truck home. Guess it's time to find a warm, twin, extra-long bed to crash in. [Pause.] Just kidding! Do not have to go home with first sweaty, overweight beer-guzzler who approaches. Harvard women don't have to do that shit...