Word: lift
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...movie opens with escaped convict Julian Goddard (Dylan McDermott) wandering the desert, when Johnny Destiny, driving a 1969 Plymouth Roadrunner, stops and offers him a lift. Destiny (Quentin Tarrantino) brings Goddard to Las Vegas where Goddard left his former love, Lucille (Nancy Travis), and his share of the money from the bank robbery for which he was incarcerated...
...rocket and artillery attacks on Tan Son Nhut. The President called an emergency meeting of his National Security Council and issued an order. At 10:51 a.m., April 29, in Saigon, Armed Forces Radio burst forth with White Christmas. That was the signal that Option IV, the helicopter lift...
...helicopter lift went on for about 21 hours, from roughly 11 a.m. on April 29 to almost 8 a.m. on the 30th. Pilots flew for 10 to 15 hours straight; each trip took about 40 minutes in the air and 10 to 15 minutes on the ground loading up. Marine Captain Glynn Hodges landed at the embassy in midafternoon; his H-53 chopper was too big to perch on the roof, so it came down in the compound. "My troops couldn't believe the scene," says Hodges. "People were climbing fences. It was bedlam. We were afraid of the crowds...
...costumes by Theoni Aldredge (A Chorus Line, Dreamgirls). Among the contributors to its original score is, well, Don Grady, whose first eminence was as the hunkiest of Fred MacMurray's three TV sons but who now writes lush, hummable ballads. Finally, EFX has that cosmic expanse of spirit, that lift of a driving dream, that wily, woozy pretentiousness, that have marked the boffo Broadway musical ever since Cats crept into town nearly 13 years...
...very clear," explained an Administration official. "Normalization is linked to progress on the POW/MIA issue." That fixation has disrupted a diplomatic mating dance between the U.S. and Vietnam that had, until last year, brought both partners tantalizingly close to consummating their ticklish relationship. Clinton's February 1994 decision to lift the 19-year-old Vietnam trade embargo paved the way for full normalization, a move for which the State Department has been quietly preparing ever since. But goaded by a core of MIA families capitalizing on the President's reluctance to alienate those who lost relatives...