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...strong, the prisoner once wrote, a man "must be able to stand utterly alone, able to meet and deal with life relying solely upon his own inner resources." To show that he was such a man, he once held his hand over a candle flame without flinching. This is G. Gordon Liddy, 46, eccentric ex-lawyer who was sentenced to 20 years as a ringleader in the original Watergate breakin. The last of the seven Watergate burglars still incarcerated, Liddy has steadfastly refused to talk about the conspiracy, or to show, in John Sirica's words, "even a hint...
...nearly made it. McKenzie managed to put his crippled jet down on Georgia's Route 92, near New Hope, 35 miles northwest of Atlanta. But the careening airliner slammed into a grocery store and there was a flash of flame. Says Marie Clayton, wife of New Hope's fire chief: "We actually saw bodies going through the air." Of the 85 passengers and crew members aboard the flight, 62 died, including McKenzie. Eight people on the ground were also killed...
...m.p.h. The engine was one of the most reliable ever made: Pratt & Whitney's JT8D7, now used by some 2,800 aircraft all over the world. Never in 112 million hours of flying time had rain or hail caused one of these engines-let alone two-to "flame out" (quit). Federal air-safety experts discovered that the engines had ingested a great deal of water and overheated, but they were not sure of the exact reason for the flameouts...
...SOMEONE who was looking forward to the next in a series of apocalyptic novels by Walker Percy, Lancelot is like a disappointing rendezvous with an old flame. It lacks the electricity of former days, the stunning moments of lucidity and passion. The one who once radicalized you and opened your eyes to new kinds of wrongness in the world now has grown conservative, even reactionary. The eyes that once held the greatest depth, the silences that bore such meaning hypnotize you and hold you for a moment, but then you wonder whether still waters run deep or stagnant...
...those progressions of shots with which Goretta establishes the rhythms of the film. The increasing tempo of excitement is matched by tighter, more frequent cutting. Scenes alternate from light to dark. A solitary tree stands still in a haunting though brightly lit field. Bits of broken chairs, marred by flame, are discerned in the warm earth-tones of a neglected garbage heap. A light flashes on a bank window. Nelly stands across the street by a bicycle. When Pierre dashes out we realize the two have become accomplices...