Word: mid-air
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...given TWA's bumpy flight path since he came aboard. Less than three months after he officially gained control, the airline's 6,000 flight attendants walked off the job for 10 weeks. In April 1986, a month after the strike began, a terrorist bomb exploded in mid-air on a flight bound for Athens, killing four passengers and wounding nine others. TWA's overseas business never recovered. Neither did its relationship with labor. Icahn's zeal to cut costs has also led to confrontations with TWA's mechanics and pilots...
After the arrival of the red biplane in the ordered midst of the family, however, the stage takes on a surrealistic disarray. The uprooted plants in the greenhouse float eerily in mid-air, while the displaced iron lattice remains at its impossible, displaced angle, leaving a gaping hole in the barrier between the isolated little community and the outside world...
Erwitt claims he rarely stages photographs but waits for them to happen. However, a photograph of a dog in mid-air is the result of Erwitt barking at it. The photograph is obviously contrived. But does not a photographer have the poetic licence to stage a picture? And does not any photograph represent reality only as seen by the photographer...
...which are also being constructed with radar-eluding Stealth technology." Furthermore, according to Time, the missiles might be even more effective than the Stealth because the Stealth cannot find targets on its own. It must depend on satellite communications, which the Soviets could jam. And other factors such as mid-air refueling and high flying Soviet planes may make the Stealth as radar-visible as any other plane...
...draw attention to themselves. Nurse Dwyer's office is recognizable as an office only because there's a desk in the middle of the stage. Confusing matters is a backdrop showing a corseted, bare-buttocked nymph straddling a column surrounded by almost-recognizable office paraphernalia suspended in mid-air...