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...past month alone) in order to focus on what is being produced that is new and fresh. The trouble is, such a person would miss out on a lot of great music: Joe Henderson's last two albums, Keith Jarrett's recent tribute to Miles Davis, Bye Bye Blackbird, Tiger Okoshi's homage to Louis Armstrong, Echoes of a Note, and now, this scorching new set that features four musicians who played with Miles and one who didn't, but admires him anyway. This young trumpet player, Wallace Roney, plays with startling clarity and supreme confidence...
When the Pentagon announced last December that it was retiring the famed Lockheed SR-71 Blackbird, it explained that satellites can do what the high- flying (100,000 ft.), 3,000-m.p.h. spy plane did and at less cost. But was the real reason that an even faster snooper is being developed in the Nevada desert? The 1986 defense budget contained a mysterious reference to the "Aurora" project. Now a prototype of the aircraft is reported to be rocking the desert with shock waves during test flights. Rumors say the Lockheed plane may be unmanned and can fly at speeds...
...Force will allow women aboard high-altitude reconnaissance aircraft such as the SR-71 Blackbird...
...accused of trying to sell two documents, including one on tactics to be followed by crews of the SR-71 reconnaissance plane, dubbed the Blackbird, which Ott's squadron flies. The supersonic jet, routinely used for intelligence gathering, can reach altitudes of 80,000 ft. and is equipped to photograph up to 100,000 sq. mi. of territory in an hour. Under the Uniform Code of Military Justice, the maximum penalty for two of the four counts against Ott is death...
...Close's only problem here. She is also grossly miscast. She is by far too wholesome and maternal looking to be convincingly sexy as Maxie. In The Natural, she was an angel; in Garp, she was immaculately conceived. Thus, when Close slinks around a piano cooing "Bye Bye Blackbird," it's kind of disturbing, like watching your mother do a striptease...