Word: haring
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...commmuter plane on its way from Indianapolis to Chicago's O'Hare Airport crashed late today in northwest Indiana, killing all 68 passengers on board. American Eagle Flight 4184 went down about 30 miles south of Gary, Ind., at about 4 p.m. EST, according to the Federal Aviation Administration. The heavy rain and driving winds -- gusts up to nearly 50 m.p.h. -- forced authorities to halt the search of the area until tomorrow.People wishing to receive information about passengers may contact American Eagle...
Theater: Racing Demon, by David Hare, is a play with ideas...
Playwright David Hare does. And in Racing Demon, which is visiting Los Angeles in a Royal National Theatreproduction, unfashionable form and seemingly distant subject matter are suddenly made vividly relevant. At the center of Richard Eyre's dark, stark yet ever bustling production stands (or rather slumps) the weary figure of the Rev. Lionel Espy (Oliver Ford Davies), a man who has lost not only religious faith but also the consolations of secular humanism with which he has been making do. To the political right and above him is his bishop (Richard Pasco), also faithless but fiercely insistent that...
...Hare has granted all his characters humanizing histories and eccentricities; his actors, particularly Davies and Kotz, respond with richly wayward performances, and his play transcends its -- as it were -- parochial subject matter. Without resorting to gaseous big-think, Racing Demon is a sharp-edged, metaphorical study of the way confused institutions and their loyalists befuddle and betray one another in the age of ambiguity...
...ideal flying weather. The twilight skies were clear, with only a few small clouds, and winds were a negligible 7 m.p.h. USAir Flight 427 was nearing Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, after an uneventful flight from O'Hare Airport in Chicago. Right around 7 p.m. the pilot radioed approach control at Pittsburgh International Airport, set in heavily wooded, lightly populated hills 12 miles northwest of the Golden Triangle, that he was "in range," about to ask for landing clearance...