Word: irelands
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
LONDON--A jetliner bound for Northern Ireland with 126 people aboard slammed into a highway embankment in central England yesterday while trying to make an emergency landing, authorities said. At least 32 people were reported killed, and another 76 injured...
...prospect that Flight 103 had been deliberately blown out of the skies. David Kyd, public relations director of the Geneva-based International Air Transport Association, noted the similarities between the Pan Am crash and that of an Air India 747 that disappeared into the Atlantic off the coast of Ireland in June 1985, killing all 329 people aboard. The subsequent investigation, aided by the underwater recovery of the plane's flight recorder, or "black box," determined that a bomb in the forward cargo hold had blown off the front section of the aircraft. Sikh extremists were suspected of the crime...
When I last looked out over the control panels of the Boeing 707, as we were ascending after a refueling stop in Shannon, Ireland, the sky had been a brilliant blue, with the first orange and green streaks of dawn. Now nothing was visible through the windshield but a swirling mass of gray...
...rock n' roll terms, the worst offender of this genre is U2. Enough is enough with this Irish intensity that Bono and the boys want us to believe imbues their Celtic Christian Consciousness. I don't doubt that life is tough in Ireland, but U2 music is produced for maximum movingness effect that is achieved through lots of driving thumping beats, plenty of references to a hopeless, endless search (for sincerity, it seems), and ripping guitar riffs interspersed at the right moments. One is tempted to suggest that Bono lighten up and smile for a change of scenery. If Bono...
Bono, the band's vocalist and lyric writer, had been fretting over this problem for some time. "The music of U2 is in space somewhere," he told Bob Dylan. "There is no particular musical roots or heritage for us. In Ireland there is a tradition, but we've never plugged into it." Dylan, who has nurtured and torn up a few roots in his time, knew just what to say: "Well, you have to reach back into music. You have to reach back...