Word: mishaps
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Kurzon, who said that Union workers had been extremely helpful with the project, attributed the mishap to some sort of communication misunderstanding...
...enough? Now try switching instead to Maniac Mansion, a family sitcom that is not so much off the wall as out of this world. Dad is a mishap-prone inventor whose botched experiments have turned his brother-in-law into a housefly and his four-year-old son into a 250-lb. clone of Benjy in The Sound and the Fury. We learn these things in the show's 10th-anniversary special -- a nostalgia trip that takes place, oddly, on the program's first episode. Weirdest of all, the series is running, virtually unnoticed, on cable's Family Channel...
...days in 1971, shows that acutely observed misery and hypocrisy have been his comic subjects all along. The funniest scene depicts desperate attempts at suicide by a deranged housewife, brilliantly played by Jennifer Wiltsie, that are cheerily misunderstood by a passel of busybody "friends." Body Language posits a scientific mishap that leads to a body swap between two women, an ascetic fitness fanatic over whom men drool and a hedonistic slob whom men mock and abuse. It could be a feminist diatribe, but Ayckbourn never lets dialectic overwhelm compassion...
Rescue or no, the mishap dealt a blow to all three U.S. companies that build rockets for commercial use. Martin Marietta, which made the booster for the Intelsat mission, had completed its first successful launch in December but may now have to delay plans for a second Intelsat lift-off this summer. The episode could also tarnish McDonnell Douglas, which carried out a commercial launch last year and has nine more on order, and General Dynamics, whose first venture is planned for June. The three aerospace giants entered the commercial field after former President Ronald Reagan took the U.S. Government...
...Long Island's North Shore, which killed 72 of the 161 people aboard, was the first major air disaster in the U.S. since the United Airlines DC-10 crash in Iowa last July that killed 111. But for Colombia's national airline, it was the third serious mishap in eleven months. Counting last November's terrorist bombing of a Boeing 727, the disasters have taken 279 lives...