Word: lostness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...much happens during these 70 sweetly silly minutes: pratfalls and swan dives, break dancers accosted, a girl lost and maybe won. Some technology- ( inspired images are new -- Irwin silently screams from inside a TV until someone vacuums up his video image and expels it into an old trunk, from which the lanky actor unfolds -- but the show owes a lot to Chaplin and Harpo, Jacques Tati and Marcel Marceau. Still, they are the people to copy, and Irwin surely has the gift...
...drawn fire. When Leykis, of KFI-AM in Los Angeles, announced plans for a public burning of Cat Stevens records (fire-department objections forced him to switch to a steamroller), fellow KFI talk host Geoff Edwards denounced his tactics as "fascist" and refused to air his promotional spots. Edwards lost his job as a result. "You've got a lot of people with questionable credentials manipulating people's emotions," he gripes. "A guy who was a rock-'n'-roll deejay last week ((might be)) calling for the bombing of Iran...
...from the pyramid of Chephren have accumulated in piles on its lower levels. In the pyramid of Cheops, encrustations of salt, left by the evaporation of brackish groundwater, have eaten away at the walls of the burial chamber. The Sphinx, a few hundred feet away from the pyramids, has lost a 600-lb. chunk from its right shoulder, and the neck is so weak that the statue's massive head is in danger of falling...
...well as disadvantages. The easing of the fare wars has enabled major airlines to make a profit, which in turn has fostered better service. The Department of Transportation's latest monthly report on airline performance indicates that fewer consumers are writing to the Government to gripe about problems like lost or damaged baggage. Only 933 complaints were registered last month, down from 2,100 a year earlier...
...when it entered Chapter 11 bankruptcy last March after a strike by its machinists virtually shut it down. The bankruptcy court has set a deadline for Eastern bids this week. And Pan Am seems to be running on fumes. Last week the once proud carrier said it lost $151 million during the first quarter, following a $73 million annual loss...