Word: bright
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...treetop where they hover in holding patterns. Here the danger is perhaps greater. Other planes from Gabon loaded with arms and ammunition also join the pattern; sometimes as many as 20 ships are circling simultaneously, some assigned the same altitudes by inexperienced Biafran ground controllers. The sight of fire-bright exhausts in the African night is slim comfort to other flyers. Says Swedish Pilot Ulf Engelbrecht: "If all the pilots some night were to turn on rotating beacons and clearance lights, a dozen of them would die of fright at their proximity to one another...
...more than $100 million. Critics point out that Hannah began building the reputation of M.S.U. by building a championship football team, and that the school's freewheeling recruiting tactics earned N.C.A.A. censure in 1964. They sometimes overlook the fact that Hannah has also succeeded in recruiting many bright young professors by paying some of the highest beginning salaries of any Midwestern university...
Nathan put down the phone and looked out his office window. The sky was bright blue...
...killed himself by swallowing a spoon after convincing one of the doctors that he was, in fact, a Neanderthal. They let him into the dining room because that was the only place big enough to hold all the consultants and interested scientists. There he was able to kill himself. Bright Neanderthal...
...structure of In the Year of the Pig reflects this dichotomy between life and analysis. The whole film is an interplay between analysis concocted in tranquility and life enacted in unanalyzed violence. The analysts are always there, narrating the actions of others. Sometimes we see bright and uncomfortable close-ups of their faces (usually minus the tops of their heads) as they clinically pick apart and piece together the puzzle of Vietnam. Paul Mus, Professor of Buddhism at Yale, lounges in his living room chair beside a hi-fi speaker and Oriental trinkets and dramatically recreates his contact with...