Word: flashing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...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...
...Flash fires, dense smoke and a series of explosions wracked the stricken craft. Since the Clipper had been turning to its left, passengers on the right side had little chance. Unlike most air crashes, those seated up front were the lucky ones this time. For many, going first class was worth their life...
...Harder They Come, The Wizard of Oz and Flash Gordon: Invaders from Mars. At the Orson Welles, Friday and Saturday at midnight...
...months every year, and London digs with four-figure faucets designed by Godfrey Bonsack of May fair. Then there is the ruler of Dubai, who likes to hoist up his skirts-all the way-and then see which courtier will be the first to mention the royal flash. Linda of Arabia deals in crashing generalities. "Arabs are hypochondriacs," she offers en passant. Bahrain is "tidy," Qatar is dull and Kuwait is full of trendy boutiques but still very conservative. One sheikh found his unmarried daughter with a man and took her out to the desert-forever. The Saudi view...
...question of whether Stoppard can write a play that relies less on epigrammatical flash and more on substance still remains, however. Stoppard is only 38, still a young playwright, and Travesties must be looked on as an early work of genius. But it is genius, nonetheless; someday we may wonder why and how Stoppard went on, while the rest of us teach, work, play, lie in the cemetary up the hill in Zurich or under glass in the Kremlin...