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...South African coast, a supertanker becomes an inferno...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Disasters: The Day the Ocean Caught Fire | 8/22/1983 | See Source »

...tons of Persian Gulf crude oil, when at 1:30 a.m. crewmen discovered a fire near the ship's bridge. The crew attacked the blaze with foam extinguishers, but within minutes the fire was out of control. Said Captain Alfonso Civera: "The whole ship became an inferno...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Disasters: The Day the Ocean Caught Fire | 8/22/1983 | See Source »

...stuck in a rut just off Broadway, teaching jazz dance by day, tending bar at night. Encouraged by his palfriend Jackie (Cynthia Rhodes), Tony auditions for the chorus of a musical called Satan's Alley-a sort of rock musical comedy version of Dante's Inferno-and falls for Laura, the show's star (Finola Hughes). Tony gets the job because, as the musical's choreographer tells him, "you have anger and a certain intensity. And that's what I need to make this show work." Sure enough, by opening night Tony has the starring...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: 42nd Street Meets Flashdance | 7/18/1983 | See Source »

...ledge became too hot to hold onto, and before hallmates could come to his rescue. Picozzi fell, screaming for help, more than 20 feet to a lawn below. "It was an inferno in there," said second-year law student Greg Frizzell...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Michigan Tragedy | 3/23/1983 | See Source »

...workers began the routine task of unloading an oil tanker at the Tacoa Arricifes generating plant, 20 miles northwest of Caracas. Suddenly and inexplicably, a half-filled storage tank onshore caught fire. Ignited, the 20,000 tons of fuel already in the tank turned the site into an inferno. As hundreds of rescue workers converged on the scene, superheated gases in the same tank erupted, trapping rescuers in a curtain of fire. Then, 17 hours later, a second tank nearby exploded. In the searing heat one fire engine reportedly just melted; balls of fire rising 100 ft. into...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Beach Inferno | 1/3/1983 | See Source »

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