Word: aurora
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...have been picking up echoes of extremely fast overflights heading east from Los Angeles. Now Royal Air Force radar technicians at the NATO base in Machrihanish, Scotland, have identified the cause of it all. Officially, the U.S. Air Force is mum. But insiders say Lockheed has been test-flying AURORA, the top-secret hypersonic U.S. spy plane, code-named "Senior Citizen," which can fly at speeds exceeding 4,000 m.p.h. That's about 90 min. from Washington to Baghdad...
...usually peerless Larry McMurtry, author of Lonesome Dove and The Last Picture Show, two funny, sad, marvelously human novels about the Southwest, misses badly with THE EVENING STAR (Simon & Schuster; $23). The new novel, a sequel to Terms of Endearment, is big, flabby and aimless. It picks up Terms' Aurora Greenway in her 70s and deals lengthily with the impotence of her 80-year-old lover, who has taken to exposing himself. There's more, equally jokey and unfunny. Before the book's midpoint, the reader asks himself the question that should have occurred to the book's editor...
...AURORA, Ill.--Wayne's World is a hit in Aurora, Illinois, where the movie is supposed to be set, especially among would-be peers of Wayne and Garth...
...Everyone in the theater cheered real loud whenever they mentioned Aurora," says Neil Stadtherr, 15. "People are proud Wayne's supposed to be from here...
...movie has prompted calls to the Aurora Chamber of Commerce from people about some of the film's fictitious landmarks, including a doughnut shop owned by hockey great Stan Mikita and a sculpture of wrecked cars, according to Chamber of Commerce President Steve Hatcher...