In the second-floor gym one afternoon, a drum line crashed out a beat, trumpets blared, and flute players bounced from side to side, as the marching band built a joyful crescendo.
Last September, a commuter train on the same line crashed into a passenger bus and hit a second train at the Flores Station, killing 11 and injuring more than 200.
It is a simple illustration that shows a "budget pressures" line rising steeply to the top right of the grid, and a "grant reductions" line crashing to the bottom right.
If you do have a stalled car, which is a possibility, then it can create a start-line crash.
Cheever might have conjured the haunting details of the Harlem-line crash: the lead-footed irony of "Valhalla," the survivors wandering through the cemetery to safety.
After her dramatic finish-line crash on Wednesday at the Aviva Women's Tour, Lizzie Armitstead is hoping to recover in time to return to racing at next Sunday's national road race championship in Lincoln.
A dramatic finish-line crash left Lizzie Armitstead in hospital following her victory in stage one of the Women's Tour at Aldeburgh, with the Yorkshire cyclist unlikely to return for Thursday's second stage through Essex from Braintree to Clacton.
In 2014 worse occurred: having hit his best form for the Tour de France start in Yorkshire, Cavendish's Tour was over almost before it had begun thanks to his finish-line crash in Harrogate, a double disaster because it meant the question of whether Kittel was truly the fastest in 2014 was not answered.
Earlier in the day, Lizzie Armitstead put in a dominant display to take the third road-race title of her career and show she is over the finish-line crash that put her out of the Women's Tour with heavy bruising to her left leg.
They were also greeted by around 3,000 well-wishers, who lined crash barriers at Echo Point.
For those that need a one-line crash course on granular synthesizers: they record audio samples and allow you to stretch, slice, and loop that source material until tones emerge.
