Word: southwesterly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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TRENDIEST REGIONAL CUISINE Say so long to the chilies and blue cornmeal of the Southwest and to the Northwest's oysters, salmon and brambly herbs. The regional cuisine of the moment is dubbed "heartland," the bland and stodgy meat-gravy-and-potatoes fare of the Midwest. No doubt it will soon appear in stylized versions, complete with oysters, salmon, chilies and blue cornmeal, to become indiscernible from the food of other regions...
...which would take it to New York in about 7 1/2 hours and then on to Detroit. Both takeoff and early flight were normal, and within 35 minutes the aircraft was routinely transferred from London air-traffic control at West Drayton to Scotland's air- traffic control at Prestwick, southwest of Glasgow. Inside the plane, passengers were busily settling in for the long flight -- chatting with friends, fiddling with pillows, reading magazines -- while the attendants began preparations to serve dinner...
Monday morning, 8:13. The daily commuter train out of the prosperous town of Basingstoke, 46 miles southwest of London, was idling a quarter-mile from Clapham Junction, Europe's busiest railway intersection, while driver Alex McClymont used a trackside phone to report a faulty signal. Tragically, it was too late for that. McClymont watched in helpless horror as a packed express train from the Channel coast rounded the curve at 50 m.p.h. and slashed into the rear of the stopped train. Seconds later an empty passenger train on an adjacent track slammed into the wreckage...
From the opening credits (a police car's siren light cruises down a street, onto the sidewalk, into a house, through a girls' shower room) to the closing crawl (which confides, "In case of tornado, southwest corner of basement"), The Naked Gun is a picture in thrall to its own silliness. Three of the film's perpetrators, the ZAZ team, spoofed '70s disaster epics in Airplane! and spy movies in Top Secret! Now they have stolen from themselves, extending their 1982 TV series Police Squad! to feature length. The stretch marks show, in a plethora of chase scenes and bathroom...
...mine detector picked up a signal between two stones at the southwest corner. Harry Truman ruled against disturbing the ghost. Two years ago, Scouten tried a radar device and got an image in the same place. Among other decisions for George Bush will be whether to lift out that fragment of history and raise a few more glasses to the grand old home...