While high-speed death may have seemed "a sensible, almost poetic end" for some famous artist-philosophers of the day, for the other victims of those accidents, it was anything but, no matter what their ideological persuasion.
Going fast — going too fast — in slim cars with seductive names like Citroën's "Goddess" seemed to offer a ticket to eternity, and to many onlookers, a high-speed death seemed a sensible, almost poetic, end for the era's brightest stars.
"Morrissey takes us through the valley of the shadow of death at high speed.
The technique, which involves taking hundreds of photos every second and then viewing them at high speed, revealed the cell's death to be deliberate and marked by three stages bulging, exploding, and then breaking apart.
The fans do not want to see death -- it says here -- but they don't mind witnessing an intense flirtation with death, preferably at high speed.
Jörg Haider's corpse was sent for a second post-mortem in Italy today after the Austrian far-right leader's widow voiced fears that that his death in a high speed car crash in early October might not have been an accident.
Instead, you might be inclined toward embracing the emotional tides that we swim through, like the Roughstars (Home Style Cooking), or finding your strength in your individuality, like Graffiti Death Threat's "High Speed Chick Trap" (Entry Label), Lotek Hifi (Big Dada), or The Urban Renewal Project supp.
You're looking at someone who once dropped a cricket ball on to his own head during a routine catching practice; I don't think it's a great idea to have me in control of a high-speed metal death robot.
Of the seven deaths on the high speed train, all bar the driver were in this carriage, while many others suffered severe burns.
It was the high speed collision combined with the resulting combustion of the vehicle that ultimately led to his death.
