Word: blackbirders
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...hour before the Last Chance Dance, it is the Last Chance Guitar Lesson. There is less drunkenness, but perhaps equal amounts of groping as guitar strings are urgently plucked to eke out the chords to such acoustic guitar favorites as “Blackbird,” “Mary Had A Little Lamb” and the oddly appropriate “Jamaica Farewell...
...amateur music-making seems too low to cater to Hoelting’s wishes for general inspiration, but she is endearingly chipper about the whole thing, even after he calls her version of the famous Beatles song a “panicked, struggling, almost, quasi-‘Blackbird...
...dialogue, in true comic book fashion, leans towards the unnecessarily dramatic. After the president views surveillance photographs of the X-Men’s jet Blackbird, he asks Stryker what it’s used for. Stryker, with an expression of utter gravity, replies, “I don’t know. But it comes out of the basketball court.” Adding a tongue-in-cheek quality to such lines would probably have worked much better than playing them straight. But Singer otherwise handles the material admirably, juggling a crowded script and executing the most complex special...
...answering machine messages. "You will be punished. You need to fear for your life," says one caller. Newdow nods, puts down the ice cream and picks up his guitar. "Mike, this is God. I?m really upset with you," says the tape. Newdow strums Paul McCartney's "Blackbird," a strange soundtrack to the steady stream of abuse. "I bet you?ve said it, Mike. I bet you've said "my God,?" suggests an exasperated male voice. "Actually," Newdow tells the tape quietly, "what I say is ?your...
...rocket was from the steam engine?and this will be its first flight. If all goes to plan, it should smash every world airplane record. It will make the fastest aircraft, the rocket-powered X-15 (Mach 6.7), look turgid, and leave the fastest jet, the SR-71 Blackbird (Mach 3.2), in its stratospheric dust. Says Vince Rausch, director of the Hyper-X project: "It's the future. We're convinced of that. What we've not done yet is demonstrate to the people it's real. And that's what we have...