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...that he had to parachute from planes no fewer than four times in his barnstorming and mail-piloting days before his solo flight to Paris in 1927. But he explained to MacCracken that he had been flying Army salvage aircraft with "rotting longerons, rusting wires and fittings, badly torn fabric, etc." Once, he wrote, "my rusted rudderbar post broke while I was instructing a student during a low-altitude turn in an OX5 Standard." Another time, "my wooden propeller threw its sheet-metal tipping on a southbound mail flight from Chicago." Again, "my DH throttle mechanism broke and closed...
...critique of Dirty Hands should end without a few harsh words about the movie's politics, what little there are to be found. An insidious sexism threads its way through the framework of the story, occasionally exposing itself in all its nakedness before submerging beneath the fabric of its jerky plot. Chabrol saves the bulk of his wrath for Schneider, a modern Circe whose corruption and faithlessness bring down both of the men in her life. She is held responsible for the havoc wreaked in this film; her partner in adultery is little more than a good-looking schmuck only...
...most of the charges. If the academy had followed tradition, none of the expelled cadets could have returned, for they had violated the rigid honor code: "A cadet will not lie, cheat or steal or tolerate those who do." It was only after an agonizing inquiry into the moral fabric of the academy that the Army ruled that any of the 152 cadets who had been kicked out in the scandal could apply for readmission. The 98 who returned included five expelled in other cheating incidents...
...then, the grand finale: a triumphal procession across the campus, with togas ($20 or less) fashioned from pastel bed sheets. The Florida contingent was led by an aspiring-and perspiring -Ulysses, clad in bright gold-fabric armor. Would-be Legionnaires-all male -captained chariots crafted from barrels and aluminum sheeting, drawn by teams of giggling girls. Chauvinistic? Perhaps, but the girls didn't mind. Nor did they balk at a slave auction, in which the prettiest sold for up to $50 in aid of a book fund. Successful bidders got a coed for the day to rub their backs...
...costumes of his Nō troupe. Apart from the kind of tie-dyeing used for some kimonos, which took a year to tie and another year to unpick, these robes probably consumed more expert human labor than any other garments in history. The weavers might finish six inches of fabric in a week. The planning of the design, with its innumerable shifts of color and texture, must have required a degree of intelligent concentration unequaled in the history of Western weaving. That the robes have survived at all, through the vicissitudes of performance since the 17th century, is a small...