Word: fallen
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Police in Miami recently caught one man near an expressway ramp cutting up a fallen pole with a blowtorch and loading the pieces onto a pickup truck. An even bolder thief was caught at 4 a.m. by Highway Patrol Corporal Edward Fletcher with an intact pole strapped to the side of a Datsun. "It wouldn't take a great police mind to figure out that one," said Fletcher...
CARMEN'S staging does a disservice to some top-flight performances. As Colonel Calverley, the leader of a troop of dragoons whose fiancees have all fallen in love with the poet Bunthorne. William Propp wins over the audience from his first entrance. In one toothy grin, he can look mischievous and still hopelessly bemused, and he handles the perilous patter-song without missing a beat. Carmen's basic idea for staging this number--a list of the ingredients that go into a heavy dragoon--is original and witty: the Colonel sings it on his soldiers' shoulders, lending new meaning...
...that no one would be there. Most everyone was, no doubt, off for Christmas break as we were. Disappointed, and embarassed over our own stupidity, we decided to take a look anyway, having little else to do for the afternoon. Instead of snow, a chilling drizzle had fallen since morning, and we quickly became irritated when bad directions sent us circling back into town toward the seafood restaurants and little olde craft shoppes...
...these TV views also revealed a possible hitch: a handful of the spacecraft's 30,000 or so silica tiles, essential for insulating Columbia against the flaming, 2,400° F heat of re-entry into the atmosphere, had fallen off. Apparently they were shaken loose during maximum vibrations in the first few moments of the launch, possibly when the solid-fuel rockets were kicked away. The tiles, about a dozen in all, came from the area just above the orbital maneuvering engines on either side of the rudder. Mission controllers quickly pointed out that this was a noncritical...
MALLE MAKES SUCH SCENES seem plausible in his Atlantic City, and as a slice of fallen life this is a successful film. But as a presentation of a handful of characters and their lives Atlantic City fails. Malle seems to have trouble casting male Americans: Keith Carradine's deadwood performance in Pretty Baby nearly ruined that movie, and in Atlantic City Burt Lancaster acts with such leaden sluggishness you wonder if the projector is running at the right speed...