Word: desert
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...looms up out of the cactus and tumbleweed like a vast tombstone: a sprawling airplane hangar, 60,000 sq. ft., large enough to house a 747, edging up to the shimmering tarmac of a remote airfield in the Arizona desert, 90 miles southeast of Phoenix. On a wall within is a 4 ft.-by-3 ft. plaque that reads "George Arntzen Doole (1909-1985). Founder, Chief Executive Officer, Board of Directors of Air America Inc., Air Asia Company Limited, Civil Air Transport Company Limited." The plaque is the only memorial to a man who created and ran what was once...
...those not quite so acclimated with the Christian tradition, a short trip over scenic desert regions and barbed wire would land them in Muslim-Land. Muslims would absolutely flip for the renovated Dome of the Rock, re-done as a religious "Space Mountain" roller-coaster ride...
...Right Stuff. Tom Wolfe named the phenomenon when describing how the nation's best test pilots follow a curious training regimen. Rather than eat right and sleep properly, the fighter jocks stay up all night drinking and rat-racing down desert highways in their sportscars...
...recklessly disturb Enrile, who served Marcos for more than 20 years. If the Defense Minister finds himself entangled in some complex commission investigation, say some Aquino supporters, Enrile, who oversees the country's 230,000-strong military, could easily do to Aquino what he did to Marcos: desert her government and move to establish...
MAYBE RYDER SHOULD have done some of his hatchet work on the script. A film of this dubious caliber should not try to hold an audience's attention for longer than an hour-and-a-half. So there's about an extra half hour of wandering around in the desert, getting chased by hick cops who all look the same, or watching Hauer do his imitation of The Thing That Wouldn't Die in Hitcher. Some editing could have been done, perhaps enough to make this an MTV video...