Word: cockpits
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...plane started taxiing down the runway, McAward took a seat on the tobacco side of the SMOKING/NO SMOKING sign and asked a flight attendant to move the sign. No way, said the smokers already seated on that row. So McAward got up and headed for the cockpit. A flight attendant told him not to stand while the plane was moving down the runway, but McAward refused to take a violation of his rights sitting down...
Kaufman as a child may remind readers of the fugitive youth in Jerzy Kosinki's The Painted Bird. Kaufman the avenger is also reminiscent of Kosinski's Cockpit and Blind Date. But there is a crucial difference. Kosinski's fiction is cold, clinical, beyond ideaology or feeling. In the Eighth Sin, vengeance is passionate, even humane. Though the book's structure is somewhat programmatic. Kaufer, a senior editor of time, has given the familiar documentary evidence of the death camps and their aftermath a persuasive and moving life in fiction...
...trouble soon came as the Palestinians were conducting doorway negotiations with a Cypriot intermediary. The Egyptian commando Jeep suddenly rolled across the tarmac, guns blazing. The cockpit was a storm of flying glass. Puffs of insulation fell like hail...
...firing finally stopped. The cockpit radio had been smashed so Melling grabbed a bullhorn and climbed down to the tarmac. "What is going on?" he demanded. "Who is in control? Identify yourself...
...Cypriot bomb squad expert came forward; Melling took him back to the cockpit. Mohammed and Hussein stood there warily, pistols cocked, hand grenades unpinned...