Word: daringness
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In demonstrating that a single piece of machinery worth several thousand dollars can successfully penetrate a defense system costing billions of dollars ((WORLD, June 15)), young Mathias Rust of West Germany has opened a new chapter in military history. The tragedy of the U.S.S. Stark and Rust's daring flight...
As Kubrick returns to the movie mainstream, he also waters down his material with a Hollywood ending. So far, he has closely followed his source novel, Gustav Hasford's taut, scary The Short-Timers. Now -- we will say no more -- Kubrick pretties up the climax with a bogus moral dilemma...
Three weeks after West German Flyer Mathias Rust's daring touchdown outside the Kremlin, another Soviet air-defense official joined the list of the unemployed. Rust's flight was quickly followed by the ouster of Defense Minister Sergei Sokolov and Air Defense Chief Alexander Koldunov. Last week a report in...
the wake of the daring flight into Red Square
Skeptics already call it the "lame-duck summit" because so many of the participants are in the waning stages of their elected tenures. There is also worry about lameness of another kind, a fear that the heads of the world's leading industrial democracies may be powerless to make the...