Word: gunners
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...seem to be floating, going slower and slower, wheeling around these buildings. No one is visible on the ground. The ship yaws and weaves in and out through the smoke. The left gunner's weapon jams. He stares stunned and confused at his weapon as the second gunner erupts into obscenities. Now all the crew is shouting, and the pilot angrily drops the helicopter closer to the target and orders the second gunner to take all the ammunition. We are completely exposed on one side of the craft, but the pilot wants to fire until the last bullet...
...Plutnicki--as Romaine--didn't live up to his reputation as a hot scoring guard, refusing to go for the points as Romaine is sure to do this afternoon (2p.m.) at the IAB, when the Crimson face the Mid-shipmen, Romaine is a gunner, and he can score from virtually anywhere. He scored 17 in Navy's narrow loss to Holy Cross, and he can drive to the basket or shoot from the outside...
...boom and retrievers quiver come opening day, and the air will be wild with chilled shot and chillier hunters. But whether the hunters will get their usual warm welcome when they stumble home with the day's bag (up to ten ducks and up to six geese per gunner) remains to be seen. After all the fuss, it may be a rare hostess who urges upon a guest a second helping of goose. -By Claudia Wallis...
Enter the handsome aviator (Peter Coffield) and his passenger, the daredevil Polish acrobat Lina Szczepanowska (Patricia Elliott), Shaw's totally liberated New Woman. The third unexpected guest comes wielding a revolver. Gunner (Anthony Heald) proves to be Tarleton's illegitimate son, bent on revenge. This gives Shaw a chance to play the dialectical game of cat-and-mouse. Inevitably, Hypatia gets the aviator to chase her till she catches him. "Papa, buy the brute for me," she purrs to Tarleton. Papa does...
...revival is scintillating. Top honors must go to Stephen Porter, whose direction is lucid, polished and springy. His performers shine. Inside Tarleton's paunchy "ridiculous old shopkeeper," Bosco releases an intrepid explorer of the intellect. Elliott's "Polish lady" is a feminine blowtorch, and Heald's Gunner is infallibly on key, whether arrogant, cringing or crying drunk. As ever, the superstar is G.B.S., that Irish imp of genius...