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...dive toward the Mojave Desert when a chase plane radioed to Co-Pilot Doug Benefield, "How are you doing, Doug?" Replied Benefield: "We may have to punch it. We have to punch." Those were his last known words. Command Pilot Richard Reynolds pulled the eject handle, flinging the cock pit and its three-man crew free of the plane just 9 sec. before it slammed into the ground. Two of the men escaped with injuries...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Investigations: Fatal Failure to Check the Gas | 10/15/1984 | See Source »

...smarmy banker. He is based on a granduncle of Benton's, who indeed had a recording for the blind of Trent's Last Case, which the director was forbidden to touch when he was a child. But the edgy precision of Malkovich's manner, the very cock of his head as he listens for clues to the reality he cannot see, are the contributions of another fine actor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: A Search for Connections | 9/24/1984 | See Source »

little is more precious in an affair for a man than being welcomed into a house he has done nothing to support, or more...her house his, on the strength of his cock alone, his cock and company...no buying you with mortgage payments. No blackmailing you with shared children, but welcomed simply, into the walls of you yourself, an admission dignified by freedom and equality...

Author: By John P. Oconnor, | Title: Updike's Toil and Trouble | 7/9/1984 | See Source »

...York Times newsroom is a symphony orchestra, while the Post's is a jazz band. That blaring, brassy, improvisational quality is most evident in the Style section, a much imitated feature that may lead with a book review one day, take a gossipy look at Embassy Row cock tail bashes the next, then weigh in with an exhaustive account of an unknown couple throwing a party to celebrate their divorce. The section, although sometimes self-indulgent and verbose, attracts much of the best prose in the Post, especially from Columnist Henry Mitchell, Feature Writer Myra MacPherson, Book Critic Jonathan...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Press: The Ten Best U.S. Dailies | 4/30/1984 | See Source »

...Chicago-based Tribune Co. The paper is locked in its own war, this one with the New York Post, which is owned by Murdoch. Said Hoge: "The fact that Murdoch was in New York played no part in my decision-but, of course, we will have to cock an eye at the competition...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Press: Hoge Venture | 3/26/1984 | See Source »

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