Word: droop
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...portside came a T-38 supersonic trainer with Colonel Joseph F. Cotton, the chief B70 Air Force test pilot who had saved Valkyrie 2 with the paper clip, riding as observer and officer in charge of the formation. Behind the T-38 hunched a droop-snoot Phantom, the delight of Navy and Air Force pilots in Viet...
...more than 50,000 sorties against the enemy. The 800 planes in use range from the old prop-driven Skyraider, whose fond jockeys insist that it can fly home with nearly as much enemy lead in it as the four tons of bombs it can carry out, to the droop-nosed, brutal-looking ("It's so damn ugly it's beautiful") F-4B Navy Phantom, at 1,700 m.p.h. the fastest machine in the Vietnamese skies. Then there is the Navy's Intruder, a computer-fed, electronics-crammed attack ship that virtually flies itself once aloft...
...even the cast has a good time. The nurses seem embarrassed at all that flesh showing, the sailors droop barrel-chested across the stage, the officers prance and posture like stiff marionettes, everybody has lousy posture. The production wallows in that bumbly amateurishness of the parents' weekend extravaganza at your kid sister's summer camp. Come to thin of it, didn't they do South Pacific there last summer? Or the summer before...
This could have been an elegant and amusing production. The talent was there. And even as it is, it's enjoyable. But Schwartz has cluttered the show with all-executed tricks. Gilding his lily, he makes it droop...
...looked like Ben Turpin in uniform: a massive head, topping out at 5 ft. 4 in., rimmed with wild auburn hair and set with droop-lidded eyes that flashed balefully in opposite directions. He was called "the Beast," and "Old Cockeye"-though rarely to his face. For Benjamin Franklin Butler was one of the Civil War's toughest and most hated Northern generals...