Word: droning
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...each airport the war had swiftly overtaken any trace of civilian life. The camouflaged C-130 cargo planes were dropping like slow-moving drone bees onto the runways, their engines still running as they loaded up for unknown destinations. Despite reports of heavy British bombing of the runway at Port Stanley, one pallet of mail and Argentine magazines was routinely marked is. MALVINAS. In Comodoro Rivadavia a convoy of perhaps 40 Mercedes-Benz trucks painted in camouflage carried units of the country's elite paratrooper corps. I was repeatedly told that the reason for the tightened security...
...intrigue, portraying Ganz and Schygulla crawling along what seems to be a dark passageway. Actually, they are dragging themselves along the carpeted floor of her mansion into the bedroom where they will fiddle as Beirut burns. There is no suspense, no tension in this film only the sustained drone of suppressed angst. Circle of Deceit lacks the mythic color and intensity of Schlondorff's best-known film The Tin Drum. Where the bizarre fantasy of The Tin Drum terrifies and disgusts, the efficient realism of Circle of Deceit fades into ennui. Both movies bear Schlondorff's unmistakable brass-knuckle touch...
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Half-way through your two-and-a-half hour ride, and with a six pack left in your case of Molson's, the monotonous drone of the Mass Pike and towns like Natick, Hopkinton, and Framingham begins to promote a sinking feeling along with the beginnings of what will hopefully be a three-day buzz. The Game will last only three hours, at most, and that's if Ron Cuccia takes his time in the Harvard huddles You ask yourself and your friends: What are we going to do in New Haven, which even Yalies call the armpit...
...enthusiasm can overcome the technocratic blankness. A 105-mm artillery piece is "robust" and its "lethal punch" is thus "ideal for use in tough limited war conditions in all climates." One transport is a "tough, roomy, dependable" aircraft, and the catalogue says of the AEL 4111 Snipe aerial drone for antiaircraft gunners: "The morale effect on weapons crews who are able to see their target destroyed is incalculable...