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When the first German bombers drone in over Belfast, Gavin is enthralled at the prospect of the adult world's destruction. "Come on, Hitler, blow up city hall" cries a leftist friend. "And Queen's University!" shrieks Gavin But in a qualm of conscience, he rushes back to the hospital for a 24-hour stint in the morgue, identifying and coffining the raid victims. Half-potted on hospital whisky, he grinds through the grisly work in a manner that wins admiration from doctors, medical students and even from his girl friend Sally. At the raid...
...MARK-46. A lightweight, self-guided, solid-fuel missile with an underwater speed faster than the newest nuclear subs; it can be dropped from a plane or an unmanned remote-controlled helicopter called DASH (Drone Anti-Submarine Helicopter), dives to a preset depth, then zigzags around in search of enemy subs...
...dancers dance. Then the singers replace the dancers on stage; one must immediately ignore the movement of the singers, and concentrate on their singing, something that's very hard to do when the dancers are performing in front of them. For the actors, the music disappears, except for the drone, and one is left with words. Had the material and the performers in all three media been equally good. I could only remark on the success of the syntheses. But there is no comparison...
Indian music seemed to predominate in the score. The best moments occurred in the dances, when the drone of the Indian instruments, the complex rhythmic cycles, and peter Pease's creditable performance as chorus, combined to form a whole that I found reminiscent of Stravinsky's ballet music in its uncanny suitability to the dance: they far outshone the rest of the score...
...m.p.h., and can stay up for an hour and a half. It is launched from a mother ship, generally a Lockheed C-130 Hercules, from a distance up to 200 miles away from the target area. The mother ship maintains line-of-sight radar surveillance, hovers around until the drone has taken its pictures and, with the help of its preset inertial guidance system, returns and parachutes or is guided to a soft landing. The Firebee is mostly used as a target drone, but, as the Ryan company itself points out in a brochure, it is "a stable platform...