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Confusions between the identical sounding to and two almost led to a mid-air collision, when a pilot misheard Climb to five zero as Climb two five zero, putting him on a collision course with another aircraft that was just fifteen hundred feet above him; it did lead to a fatal accident, when a pilot, in another incident, read back the instruction Descend two four zero zero as O.K. Four zero zero and then proceeded, without correction from the controller, to descend to four hundred, rather than twenty-four hundred feet.
Commentators were set to anoint Williams the next Tiger Woods, but her father screwed it up by calling her semifinal opponent a "white turkey" and portraying the opponent's collision with Williams during a changeover as "a racial thing."
More enlivening by far is Love and Death on Long Island , in which another aging protagonist (John Hurt), a clubby English novelist poignantly out of touch with modern society, goes on another soulful quest, developing an obsession with a beautiful teen idol (Jason Priestley) whom he accidentally sees on-screen in a film called Hot Pants College 2 . First-time director Richard Kwietniowski has fun with the collision of high and low culture, and he does elegant work.
I must not be cosmonaut material, because I'm drifting in deep space after just narrowly surviving a collision, a total power failure and a heart problem, I'm not thinking, okay, let's at least do the milk commercial.
It's the classic Hare setup, a collision between two people who see life differently but are nonetheless connected: a successful Thatcher-era businessman and his former mistress, a schoolteacher in London's East End.
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