Word: gyros
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...tight little wads of initials they use in the defense game. In this case it is the INS, or inertial navigation system, whose alignment takes three to ten minutes in planes that fly with conventional navigational rigs, but in the F-20, owing to Honeywell's ring laser gyro, the INS is aligned in 22 seconds flat...
Rides, provided by Fun Ventures, Inc., will include the Rocky Mountain Climb, Whirly Bird, Gyro, Bouncy Boxing, Human Bowling and Moon Walk. Other attractions include a tattooist, table magicians and a train that will circulate around the area...
...doll's bathtub struggle with a piggy handpuppet. Tony Millionaire and Chip Kidd turn in a masterfully sardonic "The Bat-Man." Colored an antique tea-stain brown, with a mood reminiscent of the 1930s horror movies, Bruce Wayne becomes a creepy, eccentric playboy who flies around in his "bat-gyro." Another stand-out, Ellen Fornay and Ariel Bordeaux imagine "Wonder Woman's Day Off," when she skips out for a cappuccino and a poetry slam, with her big-boots-and-tiara-look fitting right into the downtown hipster scene...
...dare imagine the consequences to these candidates after consuming a sausage calzone, a gyro, a samosa, a pastrami on rye with a half-sour pickle, a pint of brown ale, a dozen baby back ribs and a cannoli, all in 45 minutes? Will the Secret Service have the sense to avoid disaster by leaping in front of their candidate and wrestling the innocent-looking kielbasa to the ground...
...good guy is a dog, Max's gray-eyed mutt companion, fearless and faithful. Another one literally erupts out of the earth. This is Gyro Captain (Bruce Spence), a deranged parody of the World War I aerial ace: scarecrow skinny, gaily clad, sporting a James Coburn smile with advanced caries. This would-be gallant is given to abrupt whinnies and wistful meditations on the good old days: "Remember lingerie?" The refiners are led by Pappagallo (Mike Preston), who carries the weight of his predicament with swaggering dignity, and Feral Kid (Emil Minty), an eight-year-old who growls...