Word: formulas
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...rhythmic requiem for the hero who lay within, one of Brazil's greatest heroes and among the fastest men on wheels on earth -- Ayrton Senna da Silva, dead at 34, killed in a Formula One crash at the San Marino Grand Prix in Imola, Italy. In his 10 years of Grand Prix competition, the Brazilian had won 41 races and three world championships. Senna would be mourned officially for three days, declared President Itamar Franco. On the flight home from Europe, Senna's coffin, curtained off in the business-class section, had already become a shrine as passengers came...
Amid the grief there was also anger. Though Senna himself was famously fatalistic about his participation in a sport in which speeds of more than 180 m.p.h. are not uncommon, there were those who thought he had died needlessly. No one had been killed in a Formula One race for 12 years, yet at San Marino alone there were five accidents and two deaths. The day before Senna missed a turn and drove his Williams-Renault into a concrete wall, Austrian rookie Roland Ratzenberger had perished in a similar accident during qualifying trials...
Many of the drivers on the Grand Prix circuit blamed a spate of crashes this season on an effort by the International Federation of Automobiles (FIA), Formula One's Paris-based governing body, to sharpen competition by banning the use of high-tech devices thought to give the richer racing teams an unfair advantage. In doing so, the drivers charged, the federation had made the sport far more dangerous. Senna himself had expressed misgivings even before the start of the season. "It's a great error to remove the electronics from the cars," he said. "The cars are very fast...
While following the modern mystery formula, Prime Suspect 3 succeeds in being suspenseful and moving. The cast is terrific, from Mirren to the prime suspect himself (David Thewlis, star of the film Naked) to a poignant transvestite (Peter Capaldi) to each politician or social worker who falls under the cops' suspicious gaze. They help make Prime Suspect 3 a winner in the burgeoning genre of serial thrillers...
...doesn't want to engage in "ennabling behavior." Every actor must ask themselves why they are in a room, but neither Willis or D'Aquila account for the fact that she's armed and he's bleeding and they aren't' on their way to the hospital. The formula dictates that these relationships create hard-to-break patterns, but we don't see it from either Vogel or the actors...