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...least 32 minutes after the tail damage was sustained over Sagami Bay. "In spite of such terrible conditions, the plane was kept aloft by engine thrust only," said Mitsuo Nakano, JAL's deputy chief of 747 pilots. "That is an incredible performance." A U.S. expert, Captain Homer Mouden of the Flight Safety Foundation in Arlington, Va., agreed. "The crew exhibited great courage and skill in trying to keep it sea flying," he said. But the odds loose," a United Air Lines pilot said. But why did so much of the tail break away in the air? That mystery was being...
...Summer Reruns One thing Richard Corliss overlooked in "Once More, with Feeling," his story on this summer's film remakes [May 16], is that adaptation is a common practice in Western culture. Greek drama and the works of Homer were based on familiar legends and stories from the oral tradition, and the plays of Shakespeare were often adapted from literary sources. It's what you do with the material, and how you make it new, that counts. M. Thomas Inge Blackwell Professor of the Humanities Randolph-Macon College Ashland, Virginia...
...that are not familiar to me. Sarah Fontaine Somers, Connecticut, U.S. Summer Reruns One thing Richard Corliss overlooked in "Once More, with Feeling," his story on this summer's film remakes [May 16], is that adaptation is a common practice in Western culture. Greek drama and the works of Homer were based on familiar legends and stories from the oral tradition, and the plays of Shakespeare were often adapted from literary sources. It's what you do with the material, and how you make it new, that counts. M. Thomas Inge, Blackwell Professor of the Humanities Randolph-Macon College Ashland...
...wealth that rivaled that of any other great kingdom of the time." The Thracians were known as great warriors; Spartacus, the gladiator slave who led a rebel war against the Romans, was a Thracian. And they were renowned throughout the ancient world as expert metalworkers; in The Iliad, Homer describes the Thracian King's golden armor as "a wonder to behold, such as it is in no wise fit for mortal men to bear, but for the deathless gods." With little else to go on, historians have tended to rely on ancient Greek depictions of the Thracians as a savage...
...Concerts. North Mississippi All-Stars. Toussaint and the China Band. Seeking Homer. What do they all have in common? They’re all bands that the UC and its poorly-run subsidiary, the Harvard Concert Commission, have brought to Harvard. What else do they have in common? The UC spent too much money on them and only a tiny proportion of the student body went to see them...