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...conventional 34-year-old who lives on Manhattan's Upper West Side in middle-class complacency. He takes the palmist literally. Informing his wife that she is no longer spiritually or sexually attractive to him, he abruptly leaves home. Thus begins an odyssey into the sordid inferno of an urban sub-world...
Gary Coleman and Kareem Abdul-Jabbar. The tiny dynamo of TV comedy and the towering inferno of the N.B.A. It was bound to happen. And so it does, early next month when the pair (mean height: 5 ft. 7 in.) team up, and down, for that milestone of broadcasting, the 100th episode of Coleman's NBC series, Diff'rent Strokes. Abdul-Jabbar, 35, guest-stars as a rigid substitute teacher against whom Coleman, 14, and the other students rebel. The plot, unfortunately, does not thicken...
...palm trees into flaming torches and sending crowds scurrying to the water's edge. There were fathers looking for children, children looking for pets. It was impossible to see through the wall of flame and smoke and everyone was sure their house was gone. Like sinners in the inferno, they ran in circles, blown by the winds, while lifeguards patrolled the beach to insure that in the hysteria, none ran back into the flames...
...three sides with only the stretch straight down to the on can still clear. A row of homes on the beach were ablaze and the towering flames reflecting off the water had given the ocean a hellish glow. A blanket of putrid smoke obscured the moon, but the roaring inferno and glaring searchlights of the firefighters lit the coast five miles away. I knew that when the fire finally went out. It would leave a great scorched scar across the landscape...
...militiamen spent the night at slaughter, calling on the Israeli army to send up hundreds of flares and star shells over the camps to illuminate their bloody work. "Thursday night was an inferno," recalls a medical worker at Gaza Hospital. "The sky was never dark. The shooting never stopped. The people screamed." Not content with merely shooting people, the assailants used ropes and hatchets; many of the victims were bound together and mutilated. Some people were killed in their homes, while others were dragged outside to be murdered. Judging from the debris that was left, some of the soldiers...