Word: ground
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...inexcusably but understandably, insisted that they not reinforce the [U.N. peacekeepers] on the ground, and indeed withdraw them," Power said...
...tourists on board--bound for New York City, most of them to board a cruise to the Caribbean--were remembered at the crash site late in the week by family members, who, in their sadness, leaned on one another and knelt on the ground, sifting the sand. Air France gave each family roughly $20,000 and covered burial and counseling expenses...
...Borderline it ain't. Although most of the record-buying public has said heck no to techno, Music, partly produced by Frenchman Mirwais Ahmadzai, revels in the heretofore ignored world of Gallic dance-club music. The video for Music, also due out this week, places Madonna on more familiar ground, vamping around with girl pals DEBI MAZAR, right, and backup singer NIKKI HARRIS in the back of a limo. The footage was shot in April, long before Madonna was showing with her second child, which is due out in September. A video for that production is not expected...
During its takeoff from Paris' Charles de Gaulle Airport, Air France Flight 4590 heaves itself off the ground, only to find its engines on fire and landing gear stuck. The pilot is unable either to abort the takeoff or make it to nearby Le Bourget airport...
...Nicholson in "Bridge on the River Kwai," the Arab prince Feisal in "Lawrence of Arabia," Gen. Yevgraf Zhivago in "Doctor Zhivago," there was the story, the place, and somewhere, Alec Guinness. The moment in "Kwai" when the maniacally correct Nicholson stumbles across William Holden - "You!" - and looks at the ground as bullets fly and disillusionment explodes all over Nicholson's face - could have won him his Best Actor all by itself. The movie, too big for the grimacing Holden to fill out on his own, is complete because of Guinness. "Doctor Zhivago" could have used more...