Word: washing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...played Happy Days Are Here Again. The occasion was American's bubbly celebration of its new service between Harrisburg and Chicago. The highlight of the festivities was the presentation of a plaque to the first passenger booked on the maiden flight. The winner: Ron Rearick, 43, of Bellevue, Wash., who accepted the award and then gave his hosts a shock that flattened the champagne. He presented surprised officials with a copy of his book, Iceman, in which he described his unsuccessful 1972 attempt to extort $1 million from United Airlines by threatening to blow up one of its jets...
...small to remember, really. Just a few things." This is a simple man remembering simple things, and the author is convincing, speaking in a male voice. But the chapters are not merely testimony; the writer's own narration takes over, and memory and present time wash in and out. Now and then - always sparingly, and never with the self-indulgence common to word-drunk young novelists - the images thicken to a rich impressionism. Danner, at seven, falling asleep and hearing the half-understood noises of her parents' lovemaking, fantasizes about horses that "are dark like blood and gleam...
Vancouver, Wash...
...millions of souvenirs ranging from sleeping bags to lunch pails emblazoned with characters from the two films. Such tony department stores as Saks Fifth Avenue and Lord & Taylor are touting the official Indiana Jones hat. The popularity of Gremlins is an unexpected windfall for Brown & Haley, a Tacoma, Wash., candymaker that for 35 years has been producing a product with the same name. Since the movie opened, Gremlins have been a sellout...
...that the plane would be torn apart." Much of the account is touching and personal; Shirer tells of his marriage to an Austrian woman, the difficult birth of their daughter, their brief vacations while the crash of Europe rumbles in the background, his worry as shaky news-service jobs wash out from under him. His account of trying to get CBS to pay attention to the imminent annexation of Austria, while a New York executive insisted that he set up a series of children's choir broadcasts, is a classic tale of the man in the field confounded...