Word: tunnelled
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Last week magistrates closed off the Place de l'Alma tunnel and led a grim procession of investigators along the 60 ft. of skid marks that end at the fateful 13th post, graphic proof of Paul's attempts to retake control of the Mercedes in its final seconds. The group stopped often, checking charts, trying to pin down the truth of what happened. There have been too many stories, some rash, some without substance...
...conclusions come from a review of dozens of studies to date. Even before this finding, Fortune reported that breast implant manufacturers were starting to see the light at the end of the legal tunnel. More than 20 studies failed to link the implants to diseases they allegedly cause. Such evidence has forced judges and juries to side with manufacturers in 16 of the last 20 lawsuits. However, thousands of lawsuits are still pending, and about a half-million women have reserved the right...
...Princess Diana. But they were also eager to gripe about the paparazzi, whose aggressive tactics may have played a role in her death. Elizabeth Taylor called them murderers. Tom Cruise recounted how he and his wife Nicole Kidman had been chased by photographers through the very same Paris tunnel. Everyone from George Clooney to Whoopi Goldberg chimed in; boycotts were advocated; legislation proposed. Some stars reportedly even want to investigate the private lives of tabloid editors, to give them a taste of their own medicine...
That fatal ride has the quality of nightmare. What was it like, being driven by a vainglorious drunk at an insane velocity in an urban tunnel? With rising claustrophobia, the passenger will sense that a driver's mind is disorganized--that "control" is in the process of being relinquished. And so it was. It makes your shins shudder to imagine the atrocious physics of the impact, as the Mercedes transformed itself into a weapon of blunt force. Next, the swat team of photographers and the final photo shoot. Whether or not the paparazzi helped cause Diana's death, they undoubtedly...
...Grace. These other victims, however, died unpursued. They weren't fleeing the pointed end of their own celebrity: men on motorcycles with computerized cameras and satellite-linked mobile phones. The paparazzi are the high-tech dogs of fame. But it must be admitted that we sent them into that tunnel, to nourish our own mysterious needs...