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...crash in Japan was the fourth major air disaster this year. It followed the apparent midair disintegration of an Air-India 747 off the coast of Ireland on June 23, in which all 329 occupants perished. In February, an Iberia Boeing 727 crashed into a mountain in Spain, killing all 148 aboard. Just two weeks ago, a Delta Air Lines wide-bodied Lockheed L-1011 failed to reach the runway while attempting a landing in a thunderstorm at Dallas/Fort Worth Airport, dooming 134. The accidents seemed to have little in common; in all but one, however, widebodied airliners were involved...
...worst crash occurred when a Japan Air Lines 747 slammed into a mountain last August, killing 520 people in history's largest single-plane accident. In Dallas 134 died when a Delta L-1011 crashed trying to land in bad weather. Another 329 people lost their lives in the midair breakup of an Air-India 747 off Ireland. In December a DC-8 military charter crashed and burst into flames while taking off from Gander, Newfoundland, instantly killing the 248 U.S. soldiers and eight crew members on board. Then, just last week, Singer Rick Nelson of Ozzie and Harriet fame...
...several other biggies: ancient murders in David Cronenberg's A History of Violence, boyhood betrayal in Michael Haneke's Hidden, slavery in the American South in Lars Von Trier's Manderlay. The Grand Palais screen was streaked with guilty consciences. And as Sith ends with its plot conflicts in midair, leading up and back to the original 1977 Star Wars film, so many of the Cannes entries ended opaquely. Instead of a satisfied "Aha!", audiences were left muttering, "Huh?" In Hidden, a Parisian TV host (Daniel Auteuil), his elegant wife (Juliette Binoche) and attractive son are menaced when ominous videotapes...
...give credibility to moments of farce, such as a refrigerator filled with nothing but artichokes, or a brother urinating on his sister's chart for a 4-H science project. Yet they must also preserve enough dignity to bring off sustained poetic speeches, including a climactic account of a midair battle between an eagle and a cat who doom each other to a fatal fall. The showiest part is the father (Eddie Jones), a brutal alcoholic who undergoes an overnight conversion, too late, into a sober and responsible man. His place as the family menace is then taken over...
...food stamps for a time and thought about being a math teacher after seeing her father, a surveyor, lay out streets. But Eileen Collins went into the Air Force instead and in 1999 became the first woman to command a shuttle mission--on the Columbia, which broke apart in midair less than four years later, killing its crew of seven. As soon as next month, Collins, 48, will command the shuttle Discovery in the first U.S. manned space flight since the Columbia disaster brought such missions to a halt...