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...smoke billowed from a MILAN SKYSCRAPER struck head-on by a small plane last week, the scene eerily recalled images of the World Trade Center attacks. But none of Italian authorities' theories about the CRASH, which killed the PILOT and two others, point to terrorism. Moments before hitting the 30-story Pirelli building, the pilot reported trouble with his landing gear to air-traffic controllers. If MECHANICAL FAILURE was not to blame, investigators speculated that he might have taken ill. A grimmer hypothesis was offered to an Italian newspaper by the pilot's son: that his father, in financial trouble...
...Hogan ’03 set off the fire alarm in the Mather high rise last weekend while making a grilled cheese sandwich. He left the sandwich cooking in his sandwich grill while he looked at Internet porn. After realizing that the loud noise, flashing lights and heavy smoke probably meant that he set off the fire alarm, Hogan“got the fuck out of there.” He was last seen demanding that firefighters retrieve his sandwich...
...well acted by a veteran cast, is one of those serious "gerund movies" (Pushing Tin, Falling Down) about the scars we leave on the folks we dash past in our rush to do our job. Their world disintegrates, and all we notice, for a second, is the puff of smoke behind...
...perfectly clear Thursday, it had seemed that the other shoe - though of a much smaller size - had dropped in the heart of a key European financial capital. There were the first eyewitness accounts of the small private plane coldly slicing into the upper floors, the television images of black smoke rising from the country's tallest building, the scattered papers on the sidewalk and huddled shock of office workers forced to scurry down stairwells as brave firefighters went charging up. Twenty minutes after the single-engine Rockwell Commander 112 had blasted through the 26th floor, Jaime May of Humboldt, California...
...ethereal synthesizers or the towering stacks of speakers that flanked the stage, but it was largely the lighting design that lent the concert a surreal, throwback air. New-age images and silhouetted trees played against floor-to-ceiling cloth banners while colored lights cut through the machine-smoke haze of the auditorium, adding a visual overload to the musical excess...