Word: sunsets
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
This combination of seeming spontaneity and dogged perfectionism might take its toll on a girl, or even on a middle-aged Midler. That, at least, is a running gag in the Experience the Divine tour. Who needs Andrew Lloyd Webber's Sunset Boulevard when Bette does the aging diva right here? She tells us, in a cunning rap song, that she's been compromised, Disneyized, classified, Jurassified. "I don't get out much anymore," she demurely declares, adding that mostly she sits "in my star trailer watching CNN. I know what everyone in Bosnia is wearing." She frets that...
...train was 34 minutes late, timing that in the end proved fatal. At 2:50 a.m. Amtrak's Sunset Limited reached the wood-and-steel span over Big Bayou Canot in Alabama. It had crossed the bridge dozens of times since its Los Angeles-to-Miami route was inaugurated in April. And so, with 210 people on board, it came confidently down the tracks -- and into the worst accident in Amtrak's 23-year history...
...bayou. In the fog and darkness, however, the barges became unlashed and began drifting. According to expert speculation last week, they may have hit the bridge, which was too low to let them pass. Someone on the tugboat radioed the Coast Guard for help. By then, however, the Sunset Limited roared into sight -- and plunged straight into disaster. The bridge gave way, and three locomotives and four cars careered into the alligator-infested swamp waters...
Meanwhile, the passengers in the water struggled to escape from drowning and burning. George Simpson, 73, and his wife Carole, 56, were returning home to Gulf Breeze, Florida, from California on the Sunset Limited when the disaster struck. "Things were exploding all around us," says Carole. "If a spark had gotten near us, there was nothing we could have done...
...show must go on. There is one season of football left to be played in the Restic Era, and this is no Sunset Boulevard finish. Restic is hoping he can go out with a splash; hoping, just once, that he can wish upon a star...