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...always vulnerable to the fickleness of the marketplace. Such ambitious outfits as First Artists, Orion Pictures, the Ladd Company and Francis Coppola's Zoetrope Studios all came and, sooner or later, went under. With the iffy exception of TriStar, formed in 1982, no successful major studio has started from scratch since Disney in the 1920s...
...separate technological glitches plagued the Windy City today, paralyzing its airport (the world's largest) and shutting down the commodities exchange for a couple of hours. The first was caused by a power outage, and the second was related to a computer malfunction.WHAT CAUSED THE USAIR CRASH? Scratch those theories, offered just yesterday, about what caused the USAir crash. Having analyzed new evidence, National Transportation Safety Board investigators say they are back to square one in the search -- and they aren't ruling out anything...
...leased land on both sides of the bay resemble less the lush semitropical island across the minefields than the set for a Hollywood western: sandy, rock-strewn hills and beaches, barren except for a random dotting of cactus. Hardly the site anyone would choose to build from scratch what amounts to a new city for 65,000 people...
According to the Cambridge Police report, Eunmi Song had a "scratch mark and bruise under her left...
...commercial theatrics." Propose it to a younger writer, Mark Leyner, who has had two appearances on Letterman and three smart-funny books (including Et Tu, Babe). He goes ugh. "We have allowed for a hipness that's produced in vitro. It has no basis, it's made from scratch...