Word: glides
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...globetrotting Count Leonardo Bonzi (Green Magic, Lost Continent). At times the DeLuxe color photography by Pierludovico Pavoni and Alesandro d'Eva is magnificent. (Best scene: a mistily magical sequence in which the fishermen of the Kwei valley, winged like big birds in their bright wet coats of bark, glide out upon the morning waters on their slender rafts and dance them on the current to attract the fish.) But the film as a whole has no shape, makes only a cursory attempt to describe the vast revolution that lies before its lens...
...Roaring Richard, while by far the most adequate, shows a definite tendency to follow the glide path already established by the General. So far, through extensive testing, it has shown a disinclination or a complete inability to establish an orbit of its own. MARGARET JOHNSON...
...fuel burned out. The plane had exceeded a speed of 1,200 knots. Crossfield's, voice tightened and his breathing came labored on the air as he maneuvered through a 3-g turn. Then he flew through a big triangle, settled into a long glide toward his landing field at Rogers Dry Lake on Edwards Air Force Base. Hovering close behind him, Chase Pilot Bob White called...
...cold image, and thwarts all the child's efforts to break free of his oppressive love. But swathed about this core is an unbelievable amount of mustachioed melodrama. The novel's major fault is that, for the greater part of its length, the major actors glide about like decapitated ghosts searching for their heads, scaring the daylights out of onlookers but affecting each other...
Filibusters and rebellions roil the Caribbean ; neighboring British colonies move toward independence; nationalism flourishes. Amidst it all, the French West Indies-Martinique, Guadeloupe and their islet dependencies-glide ever closer to full membership in Charles de Gaulle's French Community...