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...with two men aboard each. One sometimes naps while the other monitors the plane's computer systems, which do 95% of the flying. When the B-2 disgorges one of its bombs, pilots say the plane bumps like a car hitting a pothole. Far below, they can see the flash of their bombs. On board the plane, a hot plate lets them heat up hot dogs or chili--preferred over military rations. Reading helps kill boredom, and there's room for a sleeping bag for short "power naps" and a 50-gal. portable toilet...
Ever been on a plane? You know the feeling that wells up in the pit of your stomach when you're suddenly jolted from your sleep and the passenger seat belt lights flash on. It's like the downhill part of a rollercoaster ride--only you don't know when it's going to end. The flight attendant's voice comes on to assure you that it's just turbulence, that everything is under control. You're a little shaky, but you probably go back to sleep, thinking the pilot is in control...
...RESEMBLES OWNER?] Flash yet dweebish; sickly yellow color...
...know-it-all detective to one logical conclusion. A persistent dialogue between camera movements and angles also suggests more (and I'm not just talking about how every other scene starts with Arquette's legs and moves up). And Mulrooney's conflicted character gives us an occasional flash of honest hope: a P.R. exec in his brother's firm, he cannot stop wisecracking about the hypocrisy and yet, weak, himself gets caught up in lies...
When the season kicked off at the Kong last month, I felt a strange combination of amusement and trepidation. As a city boy who hasn't (yet) learned to drive, I always feel a bit uncomfortable when I get carded at a bar: I have to flash the bouncer my only legitimate form of I.D., my passport, which makes me seem like either a total wanker or the youngest member of the visiting U.N. delegation. But petty embarrassments aside, I wasn't sure how well I would relate to my 1,600 peers, many of whom I hadn...