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...cabin had lost pressure: the white mist was caused by the rush of the cold outside air into the passenger area. The vent to which Ochiai referred was a modification made in wide-bodies after a Turkish Airlines DC-10 lost its cargo door near Paris in 1974 and the difference in pressure between the lower cargo hold and the passenger cabin buckled the floor; this disrupted flight controls and spun the DC-10 into the earth, with the loss of all 346 aboard. The vent was designed to equalize pressure in any similar occurrence...
Part of him does want to say that. The rest of him knows he does, and knows also how to turn this unworthy greed into a story. But the stream that fills Lake Wobegon, in Mist County, on no map, in central Minnesota, flows from another source. A story told by a master about his long-gone childhood is a marvelous kind of time machine, and listeners really can learn how those folks talked who are vanished now, and what they wore, what they did when the great snowstorms came. Keillor knows that childhood is the small town everyone came...
Living in Yellow Medicine County (somewhat south-southwest of Mist County) has been good training for understanding the pathos of Keillor's humor, the essence of which is "It only hurts when I don't laugh." John W. Graber Burnsville, Minn...
There was mist and rain in London too, where Churchill spoke just after Big Ben had sounded 3 p.m.: "This is your victory. It is the victory of the cause of freedom in every land." Then the crowds sang For He's a Jolly Good Fellow. And God Save the King...
...bereft--and then panicky, when he thinks he has been deserted again. In an ordinary movie, the situation might call for a freshet of tears to guarantee an audience's instant pity. But in this film, Millions, with this young actor, Alex Etel, subtlety is the key. His eyes mist up, just enough to cue the attentive viewer to the desperation of the sweetest child in the English Midlands...