Word: blackbirds
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...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...
...wicked to take a pleasure in spring, and other seasonal changes? To put it more precisely, is it politically reprehensible, while we are all groaning under the shackles of the capitalist system, to point out that life is frequently more worth living because of a blackbird's song, a yellow elm tree in October, or some other natural phenomenon which does not cost money and does not have what the editors of the left-wing newspapers call a class angle...
...abolish the patronage power of the party machine. Said Pucinski: "Why should I give him the guillotine with which to chop off my head?" At one rally in a Democratic neighborhood last week, formerly staunch Democrats serenaded Epton with a campaign song to the tune of Bye Bye Blackbird...