Word: decking
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...filmmakers get a lot of small details right, like the look of the onboard conference room (President Clinton arranged a tour for Harrison Ford and director Wolfgang Petersen), but much else is imaginary. That really cool presidential escape pod? The real plane has nothing like it. The parachute deck from which passengers leap to safety? Air Force One doesn't have such a deck. It doesn't even have parachutes--they can't work in a 747's slipstream. The gun locker right near the press area? No way. But who knows--maybe an escape pod is in Bill Clinton...
...production is bound to win over most, if not all, viewers. The multilayered set is a marvel; with a few turns, the Cotton Blossom shifts between views of the cabin windows, the boat's prow and box office, a kitchen pantry, the interior theater and the upper deck where the young lovers, Gaylord Ravenal and Magnolia Hawks, hold their trysts. The second act is set in turn-of-the-century Chicago, the centerpiece being the Palmer House Hotel. But here, too, the set undergoes a series of eye-popping transformations, conjuring up scenes as divergent as the gate...
...fairness" motivates him, that he wants to help other minorities succeed the way he has. One merit-based proposal that deserves his consideration would offer automatic U.C. admission to the top 4% of the graduating class from each California high school. Connerly fears that it would "stack the deck" in favor of inner-city schools; Californians deserve a more thoughtful response than that. At a TIME Forum in the state Capitol last month, he softened his opposition to outreach programs that send college faculty members into low-performing schools to tutor and train teachers. Though he once condemned such efforts...
...hope for a sudden redistribution of wealth in America is even less productive than playing solitaire without a full deck, since you can still build a sizeable house of cards with the latter. Only the naive and admirably idealistic foresee the corporations and their contracted lackeys impulsively parting with their inflated salaries and offshore accounts. And as for the redistribution of political capital, the party bosses likewise seem to be holding fast to their power, even if only in exchange for a night in the Lincoln bedroom...