Word: storm
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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ACTOR BRANDON LEE HAD HOPED TO RIDE THE CROW, his third significant Hollywood film, to stardom. Instead it was a bird of ill omen. A storm destroyed sets; a carpenter was nearly electrocuted. Then during Wednesday's filming, a gun that should have shot blanks apparently fired something that passed through Lee's abdomen and lodged next to his spine, killing him. "I don't know how it got in ((the gun))," said The Crow's executive producer of the projectile, later identified as a .44-cal. bullet...
Among those caught up in the storm was Katherine Washington. Though she was only an innocent and terrified bystander during the upheaval, 25 years later it still affects her life and the lives of her children. What sets Katherine apart from most low-income blacks is that a long odyssey she began amid the smoke and flames of the riot will soon reach a triumphant conclusion. She owes her good fortune to a combination of factors that are in short supply in the inner city: strong family ties; steady work, although for low wages; and help from both the government...
Acted with subtle ferocity, directed with expansive tenderness, Like Water for Chocolate is a story of passion in bondage and death in a fire storm of desire too long withheld. Viewers need not feel so constrained; they can enjoy the emotional splendor, gasp at the ghosts, cry with as much good cause as Tita. By comparison with this banquet of feelings, most other movies are trail...
...OTHER STORMS PILED UP MORE SNOW, RECORDED higher winds, killed more people. But for combined extent and intensity, the Blizzard of '93, as it was called in most of the U.S., was in a class by itself. Tornadoes in Florida, record cold in Alabama (2 degreesF in Birmingham), mountainous snows from North Carolina (50 in. at Mount Mitchell) to New York (43 in. at Syracuse), hurricane-force winds (110 m.p.h. in Franklin County, Florida) -- all were part of the same monster storm system that from March 12 to March 15 spread death and destruction from Cuba, where three died...
...windows, which have been described by tenants as "causing drafts and sticky" will be replaced by double-paned storm windows...