Word: blimps
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...Left Turn Right, the Hong Kong filmmaker knew exactly whom he wanted to play the male lead. In the illustrated novel by Jimmy Liao, from which the new movie is adapted, the protagonist is so estranged from society that he's depicted floating above the city, like a melancholy blimp. When you want someone who practically oozes that kind of ethereal alienation, whom are you going to call...
...Israelis couldn't draw out their quarry together, they could pick off the gunmen one by one. Outside the church, they set up a 300-ft.-tall crane and floated a blimp attached to a high-tension cable, mounting surveillance cameras on each. A team of intelligence officers kept track of movements in the church compound and relayed the information to snipers from the Special Police Unit, an elite squad that has the best marksmen in the Israeli services. The intelligence officers communicated with the snipers by using an aerial photo divided into tiny sectors; that made it easier...
Sometimes a blimp is just a blimp, and sometimes it's used by an aging rock band in its 40th year to compensate for fears of seeming to be over the hill. To announce yet another world tour, the ROLLING STONES ruled out issuing a press release. Instead, Charlie Watts, Mick Jagger, Ronnie Wood and Keith Richards invited journalists to stand in a Bronx, N.Y., park as the band members hovered overhead for 20 minutes in a neon-yellow dirigible before disembarking to hold a press conference. The tour will kick off Sept. 5 in Boston, and the Stones hope...
...selling a sign," Meis says. At the Staples Center in Los Angeles, NBBJ created exhibition space for Toyota and let United Airlines decorate the club-seat corridors. For the Milwaukee Brewers, NBBJ pitched Miller Brewing Co. the idea of incorporating its logo on a clock tower. "That becomes their blimp shot," he says...
...sure of one thing: The intern was the victim of foul play. Suicide is almost certainly out at this point. Even if she leapt from a bridge, says one agent, "You can't go jumping into the water this time of year without coming up looking like the Goodyear Blimp...