Word: pancho
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...test pilots that NASA gets for its guinea pigs are not true leads in the field. When recruiters go to Edwards Air Force Base to lure the flyers into becoming astronauts types who can't even get the respect of the waitress at Pancho's Happy Bottom Riding Club. When they approach the ringleader, Chuck Yeager, he laughs and calls it work for a lab animal...
...America's first explorers in space. It is big (more than three hours long), expensive ($25 million) and sprawling (covering 15 years of aviation history, from the breaking of the sound barrier in 1947 to the lift-off of the last Mercury capsule in 1963). It ranges from Pancho's Happy Bottom Riding Club (a raffish test-pilot bar at Edwards Air Force Base in the Mojave Desert) to the Kennedy White House; from Lyndon Johnson asnarl in his limousine to the deep, deceptively serene blue of the upper atmosphere where "the demons" of the sky live...
...nonstop narrative that climaxes with skyrockets over Red Square and finds its denouement in a lovely Liebestod. The script, by Beatty and British Playwright Trevor Griffiths (with help, reportedly, from Elaine May and Robert Towne), is a series of small quick steps that deftly transport Reed from Pancho Villa's Mexico to Emma Goldman's Greenwich Village to Eugene O'Neill's Provincetown to everybody's Petrograd-and take Louise with...
Somewhere along Route 80, civilian life drops away. Instead of bus drivers or cops, insurance men or factory workers, the men begin to feel like troopers in the 101st Cavalry, a proud and dashing outfit that in 1916 chased Pancho Villa across Mexico. The horses were replaced by tanks in 1942, but a certain amount of cavalry elan persists. Thoughts of home and work are replaced by simpler concerns -food, a cigarette, a breakdown ahead. Vocabularies slide easily into the four-letter Anglo-Saxon mode. At dusk, when the group rolls into Fort Drum, the barracks area is like...
Francisco ("Pancho") Lorenzo, 40, has been chopping prices and carving up competition in the Southwest for the past eight years with his Texas International Airlines. Now Pancho is moving east. Lorenzo last week announced that his Houston-based firm, Texas Air Corp., is taxiing up a subsidiary called New York Air to compete with Eastern Air Lines on the rich air corridor connecting New York City and Washington, D.C. Starting Dec. 14, New York Air plans to offer $49 tickets on ten daily business-hour flights between the two cities. The weekend and evening fare will drop to $29, which...