Word: flyboy
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...servicemen stationed in Okinawa, there is a depressing predictability to the news cycle surrounding a serviceman's being accused of raping a native woman: outrage by the Okinawans, expressed concern by the American military, formal protest by the Japanese government, and finally, an indictment and trial of another flyboy or marine...
...life was, McCain reminded voters of the Keating Five scandal. George W. Bush blithely cited his trade of Sammy Sosa. McCain's book is a signed confession of his sins--being a spoiled brat at Episcopal High School, a jerk at the Naval Academy and a show-off flyboy at sea--until he was forced to grow up in a Hanoi prison...
Fifty years after he did it first, he did it again. Chuck Yeager, the enduring symbol of flyboy coolheadedness under pressure, broke the sound barrier again, in an F-15. It was a farewell sonic boom for the 74-year-old, who has retired from military flying. "I just decided to go out on top, rather than wait for some doctor to ground me," he said. Not that grounding would be all bad. The following day, a British pilot broke the speed of sound in a land vehicle...
...comes late in the film, when Kate Capshaw, playing a no-nonsense femme fatale-cum-cattle ranch owner, takes revenge on her emotionally retarded son Flyboy (Jeremy Davies) for dropping his role as flunky to become "man of the house." (Flyboy, since his father's suicide, only speaks to said steer.) This sequence, along with a steamy sex scene between Vincent Vaughn and Ashley Judd, had to be heavily edited in order to avoid an NC-17 rating. But even with the editing, it's still a visceral piece of filmmaking. Kelley finds just the right tone to make what...
...town, and goes to work at a ranch owned and operated by Capshaw. Capshaw immediately begins to seduce Vaughn, causing sexual tension and rivalry with other ranchers. Clay escapes from the growing soap opera on the range, through his relationship with a local girl (Judd). But when Vaughn befriends Flyboy, teaching him how to be man and not to take abuse from Capshaw, a skewered triangle erupts between the three of them, with Capshaw turning up the sexual energy with Vaughn, Vaughn turning Flyboy against Capshaw, and Flyboy getting caught hopelessly in the middle...