Word: deck
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...balmy Adriatic evening, U.S. Navy attack planes leap from the deck of their carrier on tails of flame. As they climb through the gathering darkness, signals from the radar domes and computers of Air Force AWACS planes direct the jets to targets nestled in the forests and pastures of Bosnia and Herzegovina. Ahead of them, electronic-warfare jets swoop down to jam any Serbian antiaircraft radar that might still be working...
Fights for gender equality aside, though, the mood of all participants in Saturday's reunion was as sunny was the sky overlooking the Weld Boat House deck...
...what went on. Just before the shooting started, his travelogue of Baghdad ("unusually ugly lampposts") has the flip quality of a travel piece. In Amman, Jordan, violently pro-Saddam, the streets "hummed with a mean joy. At last somebody was killing Jews." In Tel Aviv, he discovers women who deck their gas-mask kits in velvet. After the 100-hour land war, incinerated Iraqi corpses burn off the vapors of his irony; in liberated Kuwait City, he tracks through apartments fouled by soldiers' dung. Back in postwar Baghdad: bullyboys, profiteers and "the total degradation of a people...
...Peter Hall's brilliant production -- complete with stylized masked figures pantomiming the mythological background -- the action it encompasses builds to a fierce momentum. Pennington and particularly Dench perform with such conviction that one forgets there is anything preposterous about their characters. This time Shaffer does not stack the deck in his perennial intellect-ecstasy debate but leaves the outcome ambiguous. In a gory, disturbing finale, both Edward and Helen must plumb, in their ways, the terrible meaning of the Perseus legend: that the slayer of the Gorgon becomes the thing he or she destroys...
Sony fired the first shot last October when it unleashed the MiniDisc player, a $750 gadget that plays or records music on a 2 1/2-in.-sq. disc. Philips returned the fire the next month with the digital-compact-cassette (DCC) player, a $799 home tape deck that can use a new type of digital cartridge as well as old-style cassettes. Now Sony is introducing yet another model: a $1,000 home MiniDisc player and recorder that will hit stores in April...