Word: choppering
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...lice and filthy denim. It has long been obvious that the bike was heir to the cowboy's horse in movies; but if Trigger had been loaded with the sado-erotic symbolism that now, after dozens of exploitation flicks about Hell's Angels, clings to any Harley chopper, the poor nag could not have moved for groupies. As an object to provoke linked reactions of desire and outrage, the motorcycle has few equals -provided it is big enough...
...look may refer to the West Coast folk culture of hot-rod and chopper, or to aerospace technology; it has little to do with the "mainstream" of art as defined in New York, and some critics find this hard to forgive. "It is apparently as easy," snorted one writer in Art forum recently, "to rack up in Los Angeles as an artist as it is to be a stringer of beads. In California, the idea of luxe, calme et volupté is simplified into prettiness and expensive-lookingness...
Next to the Viet Cong, the helicopter has been the greatest threat G.I.s have had to face in Viet Nam; chopper mishaps account for most of the 2,448 Americans killed in air accidents over the past decade in Southeast Asia. In the last three months of 1970, aircraft accidents were the chief cause of noncombat deaths (91), ahead of mishaps with "friendly" mines and other explosive devices (39), auto accidents (30), suicides (18) and accidental gunshot wounds (17). But the fastest-rising cause of noncombat deaths is drug abuse. In 1969, the Army did not even bother to tabulate...
Here Mrs. Nixon switched to the President's helicopter, Marine Corps One, to survey the damaged area. In the chopper, she hovered over tents arrayed below. In the background was the mighty Huascarán mountain, 22,000 feet high, from which the avalanche of ice and debris shaken loose by the quake had descended upon the villages. Observing the remnants of the town of Yungay, Mrs. Nixon said: "The mud is beginning to recede now. Eventually they will find the bodies...
...should have. Last week, bound for a monastery 30 miles away to celebrate Mass, Makarios strapped himself inside the presidential helicopter just outside his palace in Nicosia. When the silver-and-white chopper reached rooftop level, automatic gunfire spat out from a high school across the street, riddling the craft. Makarios was uninjured, but the pilot, Army Major Zacharias Papadoyiannis, 38, was wounded seriously in the abdomen. Nonetheless, though he grazed a tree as he swung desperately from the line of fire, he managed to set the craft down on a 12-ft. by 12-ft. open square. Then, mumbling...