Word: ah
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...star quality. Although a master of comic technique, she never sacrifices her role to the easy laugh; the development of her character through the years is the rock on which Gone With the Wind is built. Indeed, all the Negroes (even Butterfly McQueen, with the immortal "Lawsy, Miz Scahlet, Ah don' know nothin' 'bout birthin' babies!") are so carefully individualized as characters that it is absurd to label them stereotypes or criticize the film for racial naivete...
...Exactly. Somehow, I am informed, he's latched on to the story of our rummy encounter with Waterbury, the blackmailing theatrical agent, and his niece Trixie. Ah, Trixie. My first sight of her was like a blow from a blunt instrument. You remember how buxom she was in every direction...
...Ah, were life but straight how we'd live it then. But it's fated otherwise, you have to turn in a small corner...
...Viet Nam. The AH-1G Huey-Cobra, a waspish two-man whirlybird with a top speed of 219 m.p.h., can pack a 4,000-round-per-minute machine gun, a grenade launcher and 76 air-to-ground 2.75-in. rockets. Faster and deadlier than any other helicopter in use in Viet Nam, the Cobra is also far safer for pilots. For Viet Cong gunners it is a tough target indeed; it has been slimmed down to a svelte 36 in. (v. 100 in. in the old Huey gunships) by seating the pilot and copilot one behind the other instead...
With such and so long ache, ah to unman...