Word: crashing
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...bang. The accident took place in 1999 on a deserted road in Western Australia, where the eminent art critic, author and television personality (The Shock of the New, Goya) was making a TV series on his native country. Thanks to a passing Aborigine named Joe Fishhook, Hughes survived the crash. So did the three men in the car with which he collided head-on. Because it appeared that Hughes may have strayed over the center line, he was prosecuted for the crash (he got off lightly), sued by the prosecutor for defamation (he settled) and skewered in the Australian press...
...surprisingly sunny best seller based on his World War II boyhood in a Japanese internment camp in Shanghai - and the inspiration for Steven Spielberg's 1987 feel-good movie of that name, starring Christian Bale. But Ballard is also famous for a more sinister novel, Crash, about car-wreck aficionados in outer London, which David Cronenberg made into that notoriously creepy 1996 film, set in Los Angeles. Even typical Ballard tales, like Cocaine Nights (1996) or Super-Cannes (2000), are not exactly walks in the high-tech research park. Those two hot-selling thrillers were set in, respectively, a Spanish...
...Even though the rocket failed 40,000 ft. in the air, corkscrewing back to earth for a crash landing moments after liftoff, the event marked a milestone in the rapidly approaching future of personal space travel...
There are no simple answers when it comes to Lost. When we left the addictively weird serial about the survivors of a plane crash on a desert island, we had just made a startling discovery: the island is linked to the world outside. That revelation, while it seems small, was momentous for fans. It destroyed a whole bunch of theories--for instance, that the characters were dead and in purgatory. So as Season 3 opens, the question on most viewers' minds is, Will there be more present-day glimpses of the outside world...
...NAME SCENE OF THE CRASH BIG BUCKS PANDORA'S BOX WALK THIS WAY JUST A DREAM ADRIANO MORAES WEIGHT 1,300 lbs. 1,400 lbs. 1,550 lbs. 1,800 lbs. 1,600 lbs. 185 lbs. AGE 5 5 7 7 6 36 BUCK-OFF %* 92% 100% 96% 100% 82% 42% INJURIES 0 0 0 0 0 18 (two broken legs) EARNINGS $3,100 $28,000 $26,000 $7,000 $9,000 $2 million *The percentage of rides in which the bull tosses the rider before 8 sec. For Moraes, it's the percentage of rides in which...