Word: dozes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...above the North Atlantic, so lonely half a century ago that Charles Lindbergh said he communed with ghosts and guardian spirits, is dense now with 747s, the flying auditoriums that are just beginning their summer trade. Passengers doze over their drinks, eat flash-frozen steaks, watch movies through a passage as passive as Muzak. The New York-to-Paris odyssey that took Lindbergh 33½ hours would be a 3½-hour streak for the Concorde...
...landing strip in San Diego, Ralph's mind began to wander. He took to peering stealthily over the dining hall checker's shoulder to see whether or not he had eaten dinner, he hummed Carpenters' songs quietly to himself, and he hadn't slept since a fitful doze twenty thousand feet above Providence. Worst, he believed he was on to some kind of new conspiracy...
...last man out of the theater to lock her in, then gaze for hours at the stage (and boxes, which she regularly uses as an extension of the stage), trying to figure out a way to adjust that small rectangle to her large vision. She has been known to doze off-one time lying in a heap of curtains in an aisle -and be ready to go the next morning...
Later we camp out on a ridge near a truck stop, where the drivers doze in their cabs. the wind forces us to lie flat, but there is a good view of headlights passing far below, and the March sky is crammed with stars. No one bothers...
...dusty detour. Only Alice Blue Gown, You Made Me Love You and the title song have survived 1919 with melodic vitality. Thanks be to Peter Gennaro's dance numbers for some lively eye openers at points in the story where one might be strongly tempted to doze off. They are executed with zest and finesse, and one number, The Riviera Rage, also possesses a saucy elegance...