Word: missing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Filmmaker Peter Charley arrived at the United Airlines check-in at San Francisco International Airport half an hour before his 11 a.m. flight to New York. The slow-moving line took nearly 30 minutes to clear. He then spent an additional 20 anxious minutes passing through security, expecting to miss his plane. But as usual, the departure was delayed. Relieved, Charley buckled into his seat and waited for takeoff. And waited. The pilot finally explained that his windscreen wiper needed fixing. Charley and other passengers fumed while mechanics fiddled. It took more than an hour before he was airborne...
...Johnson has a new look for the new season of Miami Vice: the stubble is still in place, but the wardrobe is darker, the hair shorter. He also has a new celebrity interviewer: Miss Piggy of the Muppets, whom he squired around Miami for the latest issue of Muppet magazine. Johnson gallantly allows to Her Porcinity that if they expose themselves to fans at an exclusive restaurant, "they'll probably climb over me to get to you." Perhaps not. This week Heartbeat, Johnson's first album of pop rock and rhythm-and-blues tunes, is to be released. It features...
...Heinold Downs!" announces Roy Holding, and a crowd of more than 1,000 at the Illinois State Fair in Springfield presses in eagerly against the restraining ropes around the track. In the paddock, the racers snort and squeal in anticipation. "Don't blink," warns Holding, "or you may miss the race...
Gang violence, a scourge of ghetto and barrio life in Chicago, Los Angeles and New York for decades, erupts with numbing regularity in America's biggest cities. But these three gang-related murders -- committed in Jackson, Miss., Chattanooga, Tenn., and Atlanta respectively -- mark the emergence across the American South of organized teenage gangs inspired by models in the North and West...
Some names have a special kind of imprint. The famous Miss Hogg, whose father cruelly named her Ima, had good reason to grow up scowling, but maybe she would have even if she had been named something sweet, like Charlotte. Anyone named James Oliver Buswell IV carries his parents' announcement of a certain view of the child's place in the world, but the effect of such a view probably differs considerably from one person to another. Someone with a name like Otto inevitably knows the burdens of an ethnic heritage, but so, presumably, do Madonna Ciccone and Fernando Valenzuela...