Word: surrealness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...predawn darkness of Sept. 5, 1972, when eight members of the Palestinian terrorist group Black September scaled the wire fence surrounding the Olympic Village and burst into the apartments housing the Israeli contingent--fatally shooting two athletes before taking hostage nine more. Much of the excruciating and often surreal 20-hour stalemate that followed was played out live on television, an eerie prelude to last week's onscreen horror...
Wednesday night was terrible, surreal. One's eye flitted between the events outside one's door and the reports of those events on television. More hard information was to be learned from TV than from the dark, but there were things that the cameras did not or could not pick up--the reek of the jet fuel burning; the twinkling helicopter lights competing with the stars; the moist, ominous air; the sight of silent, empty ambulances heading back to other quiet towns like Flanders and Manorville; or the people themselves, hunched in front of their TV sets, growing steadily more...
...season of slow. There's something surreal about Washington in the summer, as bodies and minds broil and watch and wait...
...tobacco money," but no stack of dollars--not even the more than $400,000 Dole's campaigns and PACs have taken from Big Tobacco during his career--could lure a politician into the kind of trap Dole sprang on himself last week. Off-camera, things were just as surreal. Dole was being stalked by a 7-ft.-tall cigarette named Mr. Butt Man, a Democrat who wheezes and coughs while passing out fake $1 bills emblazoned with a caricature of "Smokin' Bob Dole...
...crash has shed light on some classic failures in the FAA's handling of low-cost carriers. For starters, after the ValuJet tragedy, Hinson and Pena trumpeted the airline's safety record--statements that began to seem increasingly surreal as inspection reports started popping up, showing ValuJet had committed enough infractions to merit grounding months ago. A number of FAA inspectors told TIME they sent regional offices and headquarters critical reports that were ignored. There is talk of a criminal investigation. And though the agency was concerned enough about ValuJet earlier this year to run a special review...