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...General Accounting Office too had made its security concerns public well before last week's crash. A grim report released in March noted that air terrorism remains a grave concern, and that "terrorists were aware both of airport vulnerabilities and how existing security measures could be defeated." After being briefed last week on these concerns, including those raised by the inspector general's new report, Republican Senator Larry Pressler, chairman of the Senate transportation panel, was dismayed, and acknowledged that he was himself "nervous" about flying. "There's got to be an understanding that we need better airport security, that...
...climbed and clawed each other's backs; and one locomotive was found fairly shelled, like a chick, inside of a passenger car in the antagonist train; and near a score of noble hearts, a bride and her groom, and an innocent little infant, were all disembarked into the grim hulk of Charon...Yet what's the use of complaining?... Don't the heavens themselves ordain these things...
...youth allows you to forgive Emma," says McGrath, for whom Paltrow was the only choice. "When you think of other actors who are 21, your options aren't promising. You have a grim poster staring you in the face. It's like, 'Shannen Doherty is Emma'? I don't think...
Before the onset of its Disneyfication, New York City's Times Square boasted a grim-looking strip club that successfully distinguished itself from the area's many other grim-looking strip clubs. In big pink letters on a white marquee, this establishment proudly alerted passersby that it featured LIVE GIRLS WORKING THEIR WAY THRU COLLEGE. Patrons, presumably, found topless women who had taken the SATs to be more tantalizing than those...
...sober periods in O'Brien's adult life, The Assault on Tony's can be choppy and dramaless despite a smattering of lyrical passages. Nevertheless, Assault remains the more philosophical of the two books, as it presents a picture of addiction truer to O'Brien's grim vision. There is not the slightest possibility of salvation for Rudd and his comrades--not even a marginally redeeming love story, as in Leaving Las Vegas. Drinking themselves to death is an inevitability these men seem to accept. Behind locked doors and chained to their dwindling fifths of J&B in the midst...