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...film's otherwise diverse characters. The malaise afflicts the professionally fulfilled executive (Harvey Keitel) as deeply as his hopelessly unfulfilled housewife (Geraldine Chaplin), who fancies herself a modernday Camille, running around spouting melodrama and sipping Carroll's Southern Comfort between lines. It fails to discriminate between John Considine's hail-fellow-well-met furniture dealer and Carradine's petulant artiste. With one noteworthy exception, each of the ten central figures goes in search of a human connection, and each comes up empty-handed (if only in the figurative sense). Move over Teenage Wasteland, the film says, and make...
...just as surely as it woos them, spring rebuffs its admirers, slapping them with stinging hail, destructive tornadoes and rapacious rivers. After the worst winter on record, spring's capriciousness last week was especially cruel, endurable in some areas only because of the certainty that better days were just ahead...
April turned savage in Georgia, hurling a Southern Airways DC-9 to the ground under a barrage of hail, and killing 70 people. In Alabama, where twisting tornadoes leveled a middle-class suburb of Birmingham, 20 died...
...brought the DC-9 hurtling out of the sky at 150 m.p.h. The engine was one of the most reliable ever made: Pratt & Whitney's JT8D7, now used by some 2,800 aircraft all over the world. Never in 112 million hours of flying time had rain or hail caused one of these engines-let alone two-to "flame out" (quit). Federal air-safety experts discovered that the engines had ingested a great deal of water and overheated, but they were not sure of the exact reason for the flameouts...
Even more puzzling, perhaps, was how Pilot McKenzie found himself in the midst of a storm so filled with hail that the radar of a trailing jetliner detected what appeared to be a solid form in the black clouds-a great, ominous "hook" in the sky. Since the early 1920s, when mail pilots held up a wet finger to see which way the wind was blowing, U.S. aviation has been trying with increasing success to spot weather hazards and route pilots around them. Today's commercial airlines get a steady stream of up-to-the-minute weather reports, including...