Word: gants
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...typed pages--about eighty thousand words, or the size of an average novel--that, covering a period of only about five minutes, recaptured every move, gesture and word uttered in a long, and largely pointless, conversation designed to get Eliza Gant from the kitchen of her house into a car waiting in front, so that she, Luke, and Eugene could take a short ride...
...campaign slogan repeated in speeches and newspaper ads was blunt: "THANK GOD, THEY ARE FINALLY GOING." It was also prophetic. As celebrating citizens jammed the streets of Caracas last week, the results of Venezuela's sixth free presidential election in 25 years overwhelmingly confirmed that the ele gant presidential residence, La Casona, would be getting a new tenant. By a thumping 8-to-5 margin, voters had ousted the centrist Social Christian Party in favor of the country's strongest grass roots political force, the center-left Action Democratica under its amiable, soft-spoken leader, Jaime Lusinchi...
...effect of changing technology on design. Nelson's own contribution includes his 1942 proposal to build downtown pedestrian malls and his 1944 invention of the storage wall that also serves as room divider. Nelson has created or inspired much of the modern officescape. This show reflects his ele gant functional flair, a wealth of material organized in a logical way that pulls the viewer through a sequence of open and narrow, straight and winding, busy and contemplative display areas...
Eastwood plays Mitchell Gant, a sometime hot pilot in Nam, still plagued by bad dreams and occasionally immobilized by horrific memories of the war. The British-American intelligence team that has picked up disturbing signals from the Soviet Union is less concerned with his mental state than his still keen airman's skills. They want him to sneak into Russia, filch the futuristic fighter plane that provides the film with its title as well as its best moments, and wing it out of there. Disguises, fake papers, sly street-corner meetings in Moscow, a chase on the subway, murder...
That's one for the geopoliticians to sort out. What with the First Secretary on the radio trying to talk him down, and the second Firefox prototype trying to shoot him down, Mitchell Gant has his hands full. He is engaged in a dogfight covering thousands of square miles, and it is a thing of wit and beauty and, above all, lightning reflexes. These planes move with the blasting power of a Star Wars spaceship, and it is fun to see the future zinging and skittering through our own airspace. Eastwood's laconic professionalism plays off amusingly against...