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...American sports-car buffs, the past 30 years has been one long slide into the molasses of 55-m.p.h. speed limits, fuel-economy ratings and safety requirements. They lived on memories of cars like the Shelby Cobra, the Ford muscle car that put American hot rodders on the map in 1965 when it blew past Ferraris and Porsches to win the World Manufacturing Championship...
Michael's writing, and the group as a whole is never better than on "This Street, that Man, this Life," which begins "This street holds its secrets/ like a cobra holds its kill," and works through the darkness of the scene to "This life has its victories/ but its defeats tear so visciously./ This life holds its secrets/ like the sea." The Junkies have always known some of those secrets, and on Black Eyed Man, they have finally given them a voice...
...killing, Oswald was shot to death in the basement of Dallas' municipal building by strip-joint operator Jack Ruby as a stunned nation watched on live television. Last week the gun used in the killing went on the auction block in New York City. The .38-cal. Colt Cobra revolver, which Ruby had bought for $62.50 at a Dallas gun shop, sold...
Then he took out his titanium-shafted Cobra driver, and the whistles turned to disbelieving laughter as he started launching balls over the road beyond the driving range. On neighboring tees, pros like Jose Maria Olazabal and Ian Baker-Finch broke off their own practice regimens to watch the ballistic display. A few minutes later Daly headed for the course. His first drive was a monster 364-yd. shot, followed by a 280-yd. 3-iron blast. In short order, Daly turned the 644-yd., par-5 first hole, the longest on the P.G.A. tour, into an ordinary...
Amid the desolation of economic collapse, the Soviet aerospace industry has come up with an apparent winner. Flown by a crack new aerobatic team from Moscow, MiG-29 Fulcrum-D jet fighters dazzled spectators at a French air base last month with demonstrations of the Soviet-invented "cobra" maneuver. In a chilling imitation of a striking snake, the aircraft rockets upward from a standing start, slows to a near standstill as the pilot pulls its nose just past the 90 degrees point, flies backward in that position and then snaps forward again and resumes normal flight. U.S. military officers dismiss...