Word: 51s
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...even in this Spielberg war, wisdom brings bitter lessons. It teaches Jim that he may -- must -- filch food from the dying and take shoes from the dead. When P-51s zoom above him, the plane-crazy boy crash-dives into delirium; his dreams have singed him by flying too close, poisoned him with their oil and cordite. Alone with an ailing woman (Miranda Richardson), who stokes his first erotic fantasies, Jim looks up and sees the atomic blast over Hiroshima as a blazing crystal vision. Even at the end, when a plane drops bundles of Spam and Luckies like...
...FLORIDA: OLD BIRDS FLY AGAIN ON A SPARKLING WEEKEND DOWN IN FLORIDA, SOME PEOPLE WHO CARE PASSIONATELY FOR WORLD WAR II AIRPLANES -- "WARBIRDS," THE DEVOTEES CALL THEM -- PUT ON A SHOW. ON FRIDAY THE P-51S AND THE C-46S AND THE B-25 BOMBERS CAME RUMBLING INTO TITUSVILLE OUT OF A FLAWLESS SKY (YOUR FAVORITE PAINT-AND-FENDER MAN COULDN'T SPRAY A BETTER ONE), AND ON SATURDAY 13,000 PEOPLE PAID TO WATCH THEM ALL FLY. IT WAS A SWEET, INNOCENT EXERCISE, FOR THE CROWD AS WELL AS THE PILOTS, AND NOSTALGIA CLUNG TO THE AIR LONG AFTER...