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...pilot sees the steady beacons of 007: a red light on the left wing tip, a green one on the right, and a white position light on the tail. The blinding strobes, typically used to enhance visibility on airways, blink brightly from either wing...
...fortress contains vaulted corridors that resemble a vulture's rib cage; his lair is a rococo igloo; walls close in on Lyssa like giant pillows. The senior good guys, notably Ynyr and Cyclops, move with a certain sad majesty. The Cyclops' knowing wink (or is it a blink?) is a hint of mature fatalism: he knows too much about this world-our world-to participate wholeheartedly in its redemption...
...Canada Flight 143 was cruising smoothly at 39,000 ft. in clear skies above the Manitoba prairie when Pilot Bob Pearson saw a warning light blink on. The message: fuel in one tank had run out. Seconds later, one engine of the brand-new Boeing 767 coughed and died. As Pearson attempted to restart it, five more warning lights began to flash. Then, the twin-engine jet's other engine stopped. There was nothing but an eerie and chilling silence...
...which takes up most of the space in the theater. Surrounded on three sides by the audience, the characters employ all sections of the stage. The actresses make excellent use of the props and the stage even when the audience is one foot away from their faces, they never blink out of character. Their costumes match their personalities, which are intense and never letting...
...Kantor is a Prospero with a word processor hooked to a memory bank stuffed with 10,000 popular novels. Her books are put together with pieces of these old fictions. But there can be glitches: "Rosemary's word processor is on the blink and she is not getting the sort of scenes that Rogue Duke needs. But Redbook is pressing her. So Rosemary tries to dredge up some Georgette Heyer channel-packet stuff. Instead Rosemary gets a Bulwer-Lytton trireme, by mistake...