Word: crashed
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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...corner of the warm-up room, where a television set will show them the action out front. The silence is relieved only by the rasping puffs of lifters catching their breaths as they watch the TV monitor. Suddenly, something in the room drops with an ear-shattering crash. Heads jerk around. Rakhmanov alone is still warming up, oblivious to the fate of his teammate...
...also realized that the director sees things totally differently from the actor. He's gotta keep the whole thing in his head. As the director, I'd think I might want a car crash or some other silly stuff but then I'd look at myself as the actor and say, 'Hey, I'm not gonna do that shit...
...Mile Island and the Ford Pinto entered their current slump--the batboys of the celluloid ballpark elected a new captain. His name was Irwin Allen and his product was the disaster movie. Only one of every 5000 people will ever experience an earthquake, fire, avalanche, sea wreck or airplane crash, Allen reasoned--why not give everybody the thrill of seeing (and feeling) it like it really...
Major plane accidents sometimes seem to be the only way to force reforms in air safety. The crash 14 months ago in Chicago of an American Airlines DC-10, a disaster that killed 273 people when the plane's engine fell off, may be one such case. After six months of study, a blue-ribbon panel of 13 aviation experts headed by George M. Low, NASA's longtime No. 2 man and now president of Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, last week released a firmly critical 118-page report that could lead to a major overhaul of the Federal Aviation...
DIED. Sanjay Gandhi, 33, son of and closest adviser to India's Prime Minister Indira Gandhi; in a crash of his acrobatic plane; in New Delhi (see WORLD...