Word: cabined
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...rapidly changing technology. An ardent admirer of the Marx Brothers, Ionesco produces tragic farce by using the proliferation and acceleration of physical objects-much the way that the Marx Brothers in A Night at The Opera piled people and things into a tiny ship's cabin. In The New Tenant, furniture inexorably chokes up every inch of space until the hero is entombed amid his belongings like a petty-bourgeois Pharaoh. But as the props become more animated, the people become more desiccated. The insides of Ionesco's characters are like the outsides of computers. It is only...
With increasing sophistication, Americans no longer seem impressed with a born-in-a-log-cabin background. Franklin D. Roosevelt and John F. Kennedy were born to wealth and flaunted shamelessly expensive tastes (while no one was much interested in Nixon's poorboy origin). Roosevelt demonstrated a characteristic of the classic hero, who, according to Historian Wecter, "envisages his era as a crisis, a drama of good versus evil, and himself as the man of destiny. In a sense, he must be a hero to himself before he can command that worship in others." Kennedy's record is mixed...
Before long, disembarking jet passengers may be surprised to see workmen behind them busily carting off the whole insides-seats, galley, cabin partitions-of their aircraft. In Seattle last week, United Air Lines showed off the plane that can do the strip: the 600-m.p.h. Boeing 727 QC (for Quick Change), first airliner designed to moonlight as a cargo plane after turning in a full day, and fat profits, as a passenger carrier...
Because airlines needed a medium-haul plane that could keep on earning after prime daytime passenger hours, United helped Boeing jigger its tri-jet 727 to set the entire cabin area on eleven quickly detachable pallets that can be moved over small rails and rollers in the plane's floor. To convert the 96-passenger plane for cargo service, workmen roll the pallets out of the cargo hatch on to a van, fold up the hat racks, then roll in 20 tons of cargo on eight pallets from another van. Total time: 30 minutes. In all, eleven...
...expensive engine and wing changes have had to be worked into the original design to guarantee a 4,000-mile range with ample fuel reserves, and thus quiet complaints that the plane was too short-legged for reliable, nonstop transatlantic flight. Those modifications, along with a "stretched" cabin which boosts passenger capacity from 118 to a more profitable 136, have helped send development costs soaring from the original estimate of $500 million to $1.1 billion. The tab for each plane, accordingly, has risen from $10 million to $16 million...