Word: visual
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...safety question was inevitably raised, however, by the first midair collision since the start of the walkout. Two small planes approaching the San Jose, Calif, airport smashed into each other two miles short of the runway, killing one person and injuring two others. Both pilots were flying under visual flight rules (VFR) and thus were responsible for keeping a safe distance from other aircraft. A PATCO official claimed that a San Jose controller had not informed the pilots of each other's positions, but a preliminary NTSB report absolved the control tower of any responsibility for the crash...
...back the most. The FAA is allowing its control centers to accept only about 35% of the previous level of such aircraft, which normally account for about 44% of the controllers' total work load. Both military and private pilots, however, can fly freely outside of controlled airspace under visual flight rules (VFR)-and are doing so in a quantity that alarms some controllers. Contends a supervisor at California's Oakland radar center: "They've got too much damn military flying under VFR. It's impossible for them to fly under 'see and avoid' conditions...
...scenes in Body Heat are humid and tumid enough, but they are there to serve the symmetry of Kasdan's visual and narrative design. "Ned is caught in limbo, in a dream," Kasdan, 32, told TIME. "I wanted this film to have the intricate structure of a dream, the density of a good novel, and the texture of recognizable people in extraordinary circumstances." In his first film as writer-director (he was the co-author of The Empire Strikes Back and wrote the screenplay for Raiders of the Lost Ark), Kasdan has succeeded handsomely. There is intricacy...
...print press was also out in full force, running hard to match the stunning visual story provided by television. Nearly 1,000 foreign journalists operated out of the Overseas Press Center on St. James's Street, which was equipped with 50 typewriters, 126 telephone lines and eleven Telex machines. The London Sun, calling itself the Royal Sun for the big week, stationed 40 reporters with walkie-talkies along the processional route. Die Aktuelle, the West German women's magazine, ferried its reporters and photographers around in two planes, two helicopters, two speedboats (for the Thames) and a fleet...
...flare-up are usually buried in the financial pages, got an unexpected, and perhaps unwelcome, amount of prime-tune attention. To the camera's undiscriminating eye, action is action-and cars set afire by rioters in Liverpool (a sight beloved by television cameramen everywhere) vied on equal visual terms with royal fireworks in London; it was reminiscent of the way television juxtaposed street riots with the Chicago Democratic Convention in 1968. On CBS, Dan Rather gave an unusually downbeat report on Britain's social unrest, high unemployment and general decline. All three networks interviewed Britons eloquent about problems...