Word: moonlighters
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...bomber's moon." But that was in an era of what would now be considered low-tech conflict. Today the ideal condition for an air raid is a pitch-black night. Infrared devices and laser- guided bombs enable pilots to see and hit their targets through inky darkness; moonlight would serve only to make their planes more visible to antiaircraft gunners. Jan. 15 was the first of three moonless nights in Iraq and Kuwait. No good; the U.S. considered the deadline for using force to be midnight American Eastern Standard Time, and that was 8 a.m. Jan. 16 over Baghdad...
Only the paintings with the strongest tonal structure have remained altogether legible, and most of these are the marines. Images like Moonlight (which he actually painted on board ship, returning from a trip to Europe) go far beyond the self-conscious poeticism that infests so much of Ryder's work. They are diminutive in size but large in scale. Thick darkness and eerie light turn in the sky; the sea heaves, scattered with moon flakes and endowed with a Courbet-like solidity. "My soul, like to a ship in a black storm,/ Is driven, I know not whither" -- Vittoria...
...elections are over. There will be nighttime Kuwaiti high tides and little moonlight at mid-month, favorable conditions for an invasion. President Bush's promised Thanksgiving visit could be a trick to lull Saddam into complacency...
...bicycle monopoly, for $1 million. Before Schwinn arrived, Csepel was producing a single bulky model. To get the venture up to speed, Schwinn doubled the average wage of Csepel employees, to about $210 a month, and demanded that they work full eight-hour shifts instead of leaving early to moonlight. Schwinn installed new painting and welding equipment and developed sporty new models. The company expects the improvements to pay off later this year when the joint venture starts exporting a new line of low-priced, 18-gear mountain bikes to the U.S. and West Germany...
...make it a shrine, but if the truth were known, we are all scared to go in it as one never knows what malignant monster may have hatched in some of your crap you left behind, so it still lies there unoccuied with the door flapping in the moonlight and the ghosts of bygone americans (Small A) either reading or copulating noisily as the case...