Word: flew
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Back in West Beirut by sundown, at the shelled stadium. The topmost stands are crumbled like stale cake. The poles, where pennants flew, are down or bent. Great fissures mark the walls. The clock and Scoreboard are stopped cold. Gray stones are piled like giant's chalk, where steps were, where thousands upon thousands roared for the winners. A dog scavenges in the shadows. More shots from somewhere. Near by, a bomb crater filled with water serves the people as a swimming hole...
James, 39, an analyst with San Francisco's Montgomery Securities, flew to Los Angeles for a trade screening of TRON, a $21 million innerspace fantasy with which the Disney organization hopes to reclaim its share of the movie marketplace. "Thirty-five minutes into the film/' he says, "the coughing started, and halfway through, people began to talk. This was a sympathetic audience that had turned apathetic. Walt Disney used to tell his people, 'Start with a story, then make the movie.' This time they got it backward." The next morning, through Montgomery's 30 traders...
...members also occasionally demonstrate a flair for improvisation that would do a World War II Navy Seabee proud. Earlier this year, 250 newly assembled Jubail modular housing units stood empty in the desert because some necessary plumbing fittings were missing. Two Bechtel employees promptly boarded a plane, flew 13,000 miles round trip to the U.S. and back and returned carrying several containers of faucets, nuts and washers as excess baggage...
DIED. Henry King, 96, versatile director of more than 100 films, from silent-era chestnuts like Stella Dallas (1925) to Twelve O'Clock High (1949), The Gunfighter (1950) and Love Is a Many-Splendored Thing (1955); in Toluca Lake, Calif. An early champion of location shooting who flew his own small plane to scout the areas he used, King had an especially sharp eye for spotting undiscovered talent and helped to launch careers for such stars as Tyrone Power, Gary Cooper, Jennifer Jones and Ronald Colman (whose dapper trademark mustache King first drew on the actor with a retouching...
...Saturday the jurors moved into the now empty courtroom for their longest, and most tense, day of deliberations. A debate flared over whether Hinckley's erratic cross-country travels showed him to be crazy. Said Copelin: "We went in our minds everywhere Hinckley went. When he flew, we flew. When his father met him at the airport and told him to go to the Y.M.C.A., and when he took the bus, we took the bus." They even tried to calculate how much all this cost the rich drifter. To Lassiter, the janitor, the aimless meanderings indicated a mental defect...