Word: gate
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...radiance of the setting sun or the swirling fog around San Francisco Bay, the Golden Gate Bridge takes on an unearthly quality belying its 389,000 cu. yds. of concrete, 83,000 tons of structural steel and 80,000 miles of wire, much of it suspension cables a yard thick. From the Marin County headlands to the deck of a sailboat on the bay, the grand old span and its 746-ft. towers appear to be something they are not: floating, delicate, an awesome and ghostly setting appropriate for a James Bond thriller...
...Ocotillo Road, cross the train tracks and proceed 2 1/4 miles across a cattle guard to the shot-up mailbox -- SINGING WIND, it says, a careworn advertisement that is easy to miss -- where you hang a right on dirt, continue a quarter of a mile, open a gate, close it behind you and continue another quarter of a mile past horses, cows and a pair of feuding cats. The trail pays out at the ranch house, where Winifred keeps store behind a mesquite door...
...HARD to excuse writer-director Elaine May for spending $40 million on Ishtar. The movie is no Heaven's Gate-style disaster--it's pleasant and silly and has some truly hilarious moments. But it just makes you wonder what she spent all that money...
...possible. The determination of the killer to kill, the passivity of the bystander are likely to remain incomprehensible. There is something about this Event that eludes rational thought. Only those who were there know what it meant to be there. The others can, at best, come close to the gate. There they must stop. They will never see the fire. They will never witness the sight of children thrown into flames alive. They will never experience the fear of selections for the execution chambers. Knowledge can be shared; experience cannot. Surely not in matters related to Auschwitz...
...first the plan seemed like pie in the sky: the 7,000 pilots of United Airlines, the country's wobbly No. 2 carrier, proposed that United's 60,000 employees buy the carrier for $4.5 billion. But with that as an invitation, more seasoned corporate gate-crashers quickly stepped in. By week's end the skies around United were far from friendly, as the possibility of a substantial if confusing takeover play developed around the carrier's parent company, which is changing its name later this month from UAL Inc. to Allegis. Whatever happens next, there is no doubt that...