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...anything but the bogey," Dooley's voice crackled in my helmet. "Keep your wings level with his; now come on back on the stick. Keep your eyes on him." I'm looking straight up through the canopy, my head back as far as it will go. It gets heavier as we go over in a roll to intersect the geometry of the other plane's evasive maneuver. The gravity force is building up again, and the plane begins to buffet. I've used up too much energy, and we slide down, missing another chance to line up a shot...
...gear that he and his platoon carried are precisely itemized: a 26-lb. radio, an 8.2-lb. fully loaded M-16, a 20-lb. pack of necessities, including canteens of water. There are heavier burdens. The chapter "On the Rainy River" finds the narrator considering a dodge from the draft. It is set mainly at a fishing camp in Minnesota where young Tim can practically cast a line across to Canada. The scenery and tone suggest early Hemingway; the difference is that O'Brien's uncertain youth must still go to war before he can join a lost generation...
NOTE is a noble endeavor. The concept is excellent, and the group's members have the energy and creativity to make it work. Their goals are as large as the subject matter they aim to address. They assume then a heavy burden which is made heavier when they feel obliged to buck dramatic conventions and traditional media. In its extremity of experimentation, the production fails at times to bridge the distance between the audience and the drama, though it does raise awareness and stimulate some campus discussion about AIDS...
...have not improved that a letter will get from Boston to Miami in less time than the sender could drive it there. Performance on first-class mail delivery was at a five-year low in 1988, and complaints about late mail rose 35% last summer. For the workers, automation, heavier mail loads (especially during the Christmas rush) and outside competition have turned a once cushy job into a form of boot camp in eight-hour shifts...
...heavyweight, Dwight Cooper pinned his WPI opponent, but fell to UNH, 6-4. Replacing Cooper against NYU, Rich Sofield pulled out a tie against a much-heavier opponent...