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...tanks. The F-16's builder says the latest version of that warplane rolling off Lockheed Martin's assembly line in Fort Worth, Texas, yields "the most advanced multirole fighter available today." In fact, the hottest F-16 now in the skies is flown not by the U.S. Air Force but by the oil-rich United Arab Emirates...
...adds, is the point. "When you were a kid, you didn't have to like all the other kids you played with. You just played." PIU's activities, he says, sure beat the trust-building exercise one company asked him to run using a plank between two hot-air balloons. He declined...
There's a tragic edge to these men. The great days of the biker gang, if there ever were any, are behind us, and deep down, you sense that the Lost know it. That knowledge gives the men an air of faded grandeur that's borderline Faulknerian. In their lameness, their expired '70s-era cool, they're emblematic of an America in decline. "The whole thing was meant to feel almost like they're living on past glory," Houser says. "They think they're the last true Americans, the outlaws, the free." But like Niko - who appears periodically in Johnny...
After serving as a daredevil World War II pilot in the Royal Air Force, Terry Spencer, 90, shot photographs for LIFE for 20 years. He charted the Beatles' rise to stardom and covered wars in Africa, Asia and the Middle East...
...into one another, demolition-derby style, to demonstrate how hilariously inadequate they were for describing the world around us. In "Paraguay," for example, he employs the language of industrial production as art criticism: "Sheet art is generally dried in smoke and is dark brown in color. Bulk art is air-dried, and changes color in particular historical epochs." (Barthelme quotes lose some of their magic out of context, like a colorful shell removed from a tide pool.) In Snow White--to which the New Yorker devoted almost an entire issue in 1967--the heroine sighs, "Oh I wish there were...