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...touch the airstrip of nearby Evansville Regional Airport. Soon after takeoff, the plane went into a nose dive. William Capodagli was in a seminar room of the motel when the plane hit. "There was this incredible fireball bursting through our window," he says. "Where there should have been daylight was a big spinning ball of flame...
From moonlit skirmishes between pioneers and Cherokee to daylight thievery by speculators and tame judges, from Civil War marauders to union-busting goon squads, from the last gasp of industrial fever to the fresh air of environmentalism -- Robert Schenkkan's THE KENTUCKY CYCLE, playing at the Mark Taper Forum in Los Angeles, aspires to no less than a history of the U.S., spanning two centuries in seven hours. If his view of the past is cruel, his factual grounding is solid. But what makes the work so hauntingly memorable is a poetic impulse, not a prosaic one. He confines...
...expected to make up the difference upon crossing the border -- presumably by burning up the rails. Airliners traveling to Ukraine are reported to be arriving an hour before air-traffic controllers in Kiev expect them. There is little hope for relief until all the republics switch to daylight saving time next March...
...intended to show how the number of "liberal democracies" on earth has grown, he includes Singapore, where there are laws against chewing gum and failing to flush public toilets; Sri Lanka, where murderous ethnic and religious violence continues nonstop; and Colombia, where narcoterrorists butcher judges and parliamentarians in broad daylight...
Given the prime swatch of real estate directly across from Philadelphia, the project has generated plenty of interest from future tenants and developers. But there remains the disturbing possibility that Camden's waterfront may become a daylight colony of suburbanites surrounded by a sea of urban decay. The ripples, say the skeptics, might never extend beyond the edge of the Delaware...