Word: halfe
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...malfunctions are possible: Your parachute might never have left its pack. It might be a "streamer," which means it's out there, but just not filling with air. It might have holes in it. It might have one of its lines looped over the top, cutting the bowl in half, creating two much-less-effective bowls...
...takes, say, two and a half seconds to appraise your situation, decide to use the emergency parachute, and decide which way to put it out (it's a little different for different malfunctions). It takes from a second to a second and a half to reach down against a 125 mile an hour wind to find the ripcord on your stomach and pull it and then punch the bag to make sure the chute is knocked out. It then takes two seconds for the emergency chute to become fully open. At this point you are travelling at the terminal velocity...
...seconds to count, two and a half to decide, one and a half to act, and two to be acted upon are a total of 12 of your deep magenta 17 seconds...
That happens four seconds after you jump out. You smile the rest of the way down, floating very slowly for two and a half minutes down to the ground. You have a very clear mental understanding of your geometrical relationship to the land...
...film just for itself, without any greater meaning, and that is easy to do. The characters in the movie are all the kind of people you would never think twice about to understand. None will even remotely remind you of Julie Christie; and there are at least a half a dozen characters who absorb the role that John Wayne plays on the American screen...