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...novel's highly charged atmosphere turns these scrap items into relics. Blind Cahill literally feels his way to the truth about his son. Joel's former instructor breaks regulations and takes him for a dangerous spin that conveys the elemental and unnatural sensation of flight. Cahill also discovers that the lost flyer was the leader of a trainee cult known as Alnilam, named after the central star in the constellation Orion, the hunter. Eventually Joel is revealed as an incipient fascist, a "cool-headed demon," an arrogant manipulator of symbols and, reminiscent of the pseudoscientific romanticism of Nazi Germany...
...sullen or stern. Do they know that this is a pre-op for a lobotomy? Double time, in their eight weeks at Parris Island, S.C., they will be stripped of their freedom, their pride, their names. The recruit who dares to hang some John Wayne sarcasm on the drill instructor will be called Joker (Matthew Modine). The guy from Texas will be dubbed Cowboy (Arliss Howard). Gomer Pyle is the name given to a fat bumpkin (Vincent D'Onofrio) whose dim-witted sanctity begs to be beaten into lean meat. The D.I. (Lee Ermey) will oblige. He will shape Pyle...
...this may appear to be about me," he disclaims at one point about his narrative, but much of it is. Kenneth too has a grievance. The woman with whom he had a daughter refused to marry him and moved to Seattle, where she now consorts with a burly ski instructor. "Keen to get to the bottom of things," as always, Kenneth ransacks his store of accumulated wisdom in an attempt to explain how he and his uncle have both wound up "knee-deep in the garbage of 'personal life...
Cuban authorities quickly discredited the prize defector. For most of his career, they said, Del Pino had been a lowly flight instructor. He was grounded in January for psychological stress and eyesight problems, they added, and was assigned to organize an air force museum...
...From his instructor's position 40 ft. above the other divers, Robertson reacted with instincts that had been honed by 1,700 jumps during time away from his job as an AT&T engineer in Phoenix. He straightened into a vertical dart, arms pinned to his body, ankles crossed, head aimed at the ground in what chutists call a "no-lift" dive, and plummeted toward Williams at a speed of around 200 m.p.h. The effort was like "trying to catch a football that was flopping down the road at 40 m.p.h.," said Bill Rothe, Williams' fiance, who watched from...