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...been downed by a bomb that was either carried aboard by a suicidal terrorist or planted on the 747 before it took off for London. Another scenario suggested that the extra 9,000-lb. jet engine being carried back to India for repairs might have dislodged, forcing the aircraft down. Such ferrying of an engine, in addition to the 747's four turbo fanjets, is considered routine airline practice, and Boeing officials dismissed the theory as "extremely farfetched." Had the engine caused a problem, they said, the pilot would have had time to make a Mayday call. Instead, the plane...
Berg wrote his concerto in 1935 after the death of Manon Gropius, the beloved daughter of his friend Alma Mahler and the architect Walter Gropius. The girl died at 19 of polio and the composer dedicated the work "to the memory of an angel." Robbins' scenario begins quietly and a bit flatly as Farrell moves with increasing stiffness and bafflement between her lover (tenderly danced by Joseph Duell) and friends. Suddenly they move off and she is left with a gauntly beautiful angel of death (Adam Luders). Their pas de deux is the heart of the ballet. The moves...
...conference will be difficult, and each side might be tempted simply to give in to the spending desires of the other. A minimum tax could accommodate the Senate's desire to keep up defense spending and the House's interest in maintaining social programs. A major obstacle to this scenario: Reagan's vow that any attempt to raise taxes would prompt a veto and "make...
PICTURE A moonlit patio, the rhythm of soft Jazz, and a lavish dinner ready to be enjoyed. You're about to sit down when your date gives your hand an extra squeeze and wonders aloud. Do you happen to have V.D., herpes or AIDS? This scenario was not lifted from Porky still but instead is the type of warning currently offered by the popular media. According to author Allan M.Brandt Harvard professor of History and Science. such representations simplistic view that the problem can be solved it individuals act more responsibly in their sexual conduct...
...time Things Invisible to See reaches this climatic contest, this scenario is absolutely believable. Nancy Willard has taken her numerous talents--as a poet, an award-winning children's and short-story author, and a baseball fan--and woven a tale so compelling that nothing could be more natural than a game played because one Ben Harkissian has made a bet with Death...