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With his fast talk about how to "strategize" a craps table, his self- designed gold-inlaid ruby belt buckle and a jet-black Western shirt embroidered with two crimson roses, Ken Wickham, 63, is the very image of a high-rolling gambler. He stands 6 ft. 6 in. in his 10-gallon hat that is festooned with red feathers and a Hopi rain-dance pin for good luck. Wickham soon lets you know he's no ordinary man: he says he's an evangelist minister who flew half a dozen missions with the 101st Airborne Division in World...
Standing in the hangar under bright spotlights, the YF-22 Lightning looks just like what it is: a low-slung, sharply angled killing machine. In the air, the advanced jet fighter is not only fast (sprinting up to twice the speed of sound) and agile (pitching and rolling like a Piper Cub) but almost invisible to enemy radar. If the Air Force has its way, the plane will rule the skies for the better part of the 21st century...
...project was largely shielded from public scrutiny until last week, when Air Force Secretary Donald Rice announced the winner. Suddenly, after the expenditure of nearly $3.5 billion in development funds, official Washington was raising the questions that should have been asked five years ago: Who needs this jet? What is it for? And why does it cost so much? As Leon Panetta, chairman of the House Budget Committee, points out, "It is hard to justify building $100 million airplanes" in the light of the current budget deficit and increasingly urgent domestic needs...
...script is updated to include profanity (at times it seems every fourth word the Jets speak is "fuck") which soon becomes grating. Pop culture references are good for a cheap laugh, but the "Nintendoes" and "Telemundos" are more cutesy than clever. Making the Jets co-ed adds an interesting sexual dynamic and some talent to the Jets line-up (particularly an electric Eisa Davis as A-rab, the "cool" Jet). But, even today, there are very few female gang members...
...Ducey and Andrew Dieterich, as manic Jet Action, have good onstage rapport and cool haircuts. But their voices are not strong enough to push through the thumping percussion and brass in numbers like "Jet Song" and "Officer Krupke." And Rouse is a merely adequate singer and actor. It is hard to imagine Maria falling in love with someone so tame...