Word: tristar
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...TRUSTING KIND OF GUY. I was aware of the enormous controversy surrounding Angel Heart, including TriStar Pictures' battle with the ratings board over the film's initial X rating. So, when the ad for Angel Heart asserted that "Everything You've Heard Is True," my voyeuristic impulses got the best of me. I trusted TriStar, and director Alan Parker, to provide an afternoon's worth of titillation and was reassured when the audience, packed with thrill-seekers galore, from middle-aged businessmen to hormone-charged teenagers, looked ready for the same...
...unfortunately, I'm a little confused. I'm not sure who to blame for the fiasco that is Angel Heart. Should I sue TriStar for false advertising, or Alan Parker for the waste and abuse of directorial talent? For Angel Heart is not the movie TriStar wants it to be--a sexually charged murder mystery centered around the disrobing of Cosby Show sibling Lisa Bonet. Mr. Parker is shooting for something greater, more profound--an intellectually and sexually charged murder mystery centered around the devil, featuring the disrobing of Ms. Bonet. I've been...
...blast came only four days after a bomb went off in the tail section of an Air Lanka Lockheed Tristar L-1011 minutes before a delayed takeoff from the Katunayake International Airport, 18 miles outside Colombo. Airline officials insisted that all luggage had been X-rayed, but the bomb is believed to have been hidden in a crate of vegetables, which apparently was not examined. The explosion snapped the plane in two as flames and debris shot from the broken fuselage. Passengers were hurriedly evacuated. Sixteen people died, most of them European and Japanese tourists on their way to beach...
...gray and chilly morning last week, a Royal Air Force Lockheed L-1011 TriStar became the first wide-bodied passenger jet to land on the Falkland Islands, marking the start of regular air service from London. Then Britain's Prince Andrew officially opened the islands' still unfinished Mount Pleasant airport. Almost half the Falklands' 1,850 residents jostled for a view of the royal occasion; there was even a 10-ft.-long commemorative cake. But some of the reactions to the $345 million airport were not as sweet as the cake...
...airstrip will serve as visible evidence of Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher's determination to retain the windswept South Atlantic archipelago, which is 8,000 miles from Britain and only 400 miles from Argentina. When the base is completed next year, Royal Air Force TriStar jets will be able to reach the Falklands from Ascension Island, a British possession in the Atlantic midway between Britain and the Falklands, in 8½ hours. Now the quickest flight from Ascension is a twelve-hour trip in turboprop C-130 Hercules cargo aircraft that have to be refueled in midair. More important...