The godfather of the genre is, of course, Dick Dale, whose crashing reverb set the standard for the surf-rock genre.
In retrospect, however, Lewis's reputation seems to have been, for a while anyway, as overvalued as the stockmarket whose crash it barely survived.
Fatal cocktail The driver of the car whose crash killed Princess Diana had taken a potent mixture of drugs and drink, according to Paris investigators.
There was more contact sport for Ms. Morkoski in the Piano Quartet No. 2, whose crashing opening waltz she played with her elbows.
There isn't an ounce of swing in Ms. Boyle's earnest delivery, and percussion is minimal except on numbers whose crashing drums evoke the ceremonial pomp of Vera Lynn's World War II hits.
Saint-Exupéry made sketches of the narrator of "The Little Prince," but the airman — whose crash-landing gives the Prince's planet-hopping philosophical adventures their frame — never makes an appearance in the book's final version.
"I realize this is a little controversial to say, but some women directors need to work harder to cross over from show to business," said Ms. Shulman, whose "Crash" won the Academy Award for best picture in 2006.
On Sept. 14, Warner Independent Pictures expects to release "In the Valley of Elah," a drama inspired by the Davis murder, written and directed by Paul Haggis, whose "Crash" won the Academy Award for best picture in 2006.
Dawnridge, he wrote, was "a decadent and delicious hellhole" whose crashing, clashing contents "made it impossible to focus on any one object and even harder to recall... after leaving the house".
