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...Nathan Arizona (Trey Wilson), the Unfinished- Furniture King of the Southwest and sire of Harry, Barry, Larry, Garry and Nathan Jr., the famous Arizona quints. It is a temptation no child-hungry couple could resist. They should have, though. For the McDonnoughs are soon furiously pursued by their gooney neighbors Dot and Glen (Frances McDormand and Sam McMurray) and their marauding kids, two fugitive brothers named Gale (John Goodman) and Evelle (William Forsythe), and a bounty hunter (Randall (("Tex")) Cobb) who roars out of Hi's dreams as the Lone Biker of the Apocalypse. Poor Hi and Ed. Raising Nathan...
Airplane! is a splendidly tacky, totally tasteless, completely insignificant flight, a gooney bird of a movie that looks as if it could never get off the ground and then surprises and delights with its free-spirited aerobatics...
...interpretation of conditions at Midway [June 6]. True, the accommodations might not please the jet set, but heads of state will be satisfied with good, middle-class American accommodations. Some of the reporters may have to sleep in barracks, but if it's good enough for the Navy . . . Gooney birds are a problem to the planes but a joy to normal human beings. They are beautiful and unafraid, good no-nonsense parents, and they offer lessons in tenacity and calm that some people of our country might well copy...
Nixon asked his secretary, Rose Mary Woods, to type the Thieu text. Because there was no typewriter in the house, Miss Woods went outside and picked her way through the island's ubiquitous gooney birds in search of one. After 45 minutes, she returned. While they waited, the two Presidents talked of problems of military leadership and negotiating strategy. Later in the day they would discuss political conditions and economic reform in South Viet Nam. But the main business at hand was that of troop replacement and they took a break to go into the bright sunlight and face...
ASIDE from its symbolic location in mid-Pacific, the tiny atoll of Midway has little to recommend it as a meeting place for heads of state. At this time of year, the heat and humidity are almost unbearable. Overfriendly gooney birds create a hazard by flocking to greet incoming aircraft. Limited facilities bar a prolonged palaver-unless the visitors are willing to bunk down in a spartan Navy barracks...