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...touch it! Clear the building!" But it's too late. Just as the pudgy fireman who drives the rear end of the big red Cambridge fire truck trundles in, it detonates. Out pop two slightly warm, moderately dehydrated slices of cinnamon raisin...
...think it was more or less a malicious act," said Cambridge fireman Michael Edwards. "Various other small fires were set along the walls. They were all out by the time we came," he said...
...express and the local collided head on in the hills of northern Portugal. Several of the cars were crushed; at least five burst into flames. The blaze, said one fireman, was as hot as "the incinerator in a crematorium." The collision resulted in at least 50 deaths and 100 injuries. By week's end, as rescue operations continued, more than 50 of the estimated 530 passengers aboard the two trains were still unaccounted for. Because many of the bodies were badly burned, only 18 victims had been identified...
...their cars in front of his house, blocking any chance for him to save his Jeep or his parents' Volkswagen Rabbit. "We lost our cars because of those looky- looks," he said bitterly. Almost everyone involved, however, directed the most anger at the unknown arsonists. Said one Los Angeles fireman: "It's terrorism...
Born 53 years ago, in Caslav, Czechoslovakia, Forman was already a significant cinema voice before his arrival in the U.S. He had helped unleash the Czech new wave of the 1960s with a trio of wry social comedies: Black Peter, Loves of a Blonde and The Fireman's Ball. But in 1968 the Prague Spring ended abruptly to the rumble of Soviet tanks, and shortly thereafter Forman went to New York City to shoot his first American film, the gentle, generation-gap comedy Taking Off. "I've never been political," he insists, "not in Czechoslovakia, not in this country...