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Burma Air Corporation is an experience in itself. The plane we flew on was a Fokker propeller plane, an old East German number--remember World War I? Half of the seats in the aircraft fell or crumpled forward and the ones which didn't fall forward generally collapsed backward when you sat down. Needless to say, there were no safety cards or safety announcements. In fact, there was no boarding announcement, either--just a sort of spontaneous herding to the door...
...wasn't. There are tantalizing scenes of the director at work (Chaplin getting exasperated with a bit player who has trouble shuffling cards) and some admirable detective work (a dangerous-looking sight gag in which an ax barely misses Charlie's foot was, it turns out, actually shot backward...
Antipasto, move over! Hors d'oeuvres, make room! The new rage in appetizer assortments hails from Spain, and its name is tapas. Although at first glance the word looks a little like something spelled backward, tapas has a meaning all its own. In Spain, at the sherry-sipping hours before lunch and dinner, bars offer an array of small dishes, hot and cold, to whet appetites for dinner and develop a thirst for further drinking. The convivial custom is popular from Barcelona to Seville, but Penelope Casas, in her cookbook Tapas: The Little Dishes of Spain (Knopf), speculates that...
...without staples such as eggs and beef. To conserve scarce energy supplies, Ceausescu has barred private cars from Bucharest streets, urged citizens to use 40-watt light bulbs and farmers to replace tractors with horses or oxen. Says a Western diplomat in Bucharest: "The Rumanians are going backward, at least to the 19th century --maybe to the 18th...
...selling point will be a revolutionary engine, called an unducted turbofan, that may increase jet-fuel efficiency by 35% to 45%. The new engine is expected to look like a futuristic eggbeater, bristling with twin sets of curved rotor blades that are exposed like propellers but face backward. Boeing is currently studying competing engine designs from General Electric, Rolls-Royce and Pratt & Whitney...