Word: plane
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Just stepped off the plane from Florida and it sure doesn't seem like the spring sports season is here. If this keeps up I'm going to be back there very soon. But for the meantime, I'm going to pretend that it is 85 degrees and I'm going to stroll around Cambridge covered with suntan...
Years away from the Bronx made her only a slightly more sophisticated analyst. She is as deeply mired in objective determinism on a personal level as the ex-Communists whose lives she recounts were on a world historical plane. She blames emotional vacuums in her political life on her place in history. Had she been born a decade earlier, to use Gornick's own gushing framework, her adolescent crush on the Old Left may have developed into a mature passion. Ten years in the other direction and she could have "realized herself" in the glorious Sixties. Instead, she grew...
...watched commercials for Mars candy ("They were the best?they'd fly you right through the Milky Way"); from the times he got Sam Travolta to spin him around the living room ("Fly me, Daddy!"); from the spring he persuaded his father to help him build a "real" plane in the backyard (the wings and fuselage were made of wooden planks and car batteries powered the propellers)?Travolta has dreamed of soaring, of escaping...
...Arigo: Surgeon of the Rusty Knife, an approving look at a South American "psychic surgeon." Then, a year ago, Fuller brought out The Ghost of Flight 401, in which he credulously describes the experiences of flight crew members who claim to have seen apparitions of colleagues killed in a plane crash...
...Crimson snapped out of the losing streak at Wake Forest on April Fool's Day, cruising to four singles victories and one doubles win before high-tailing it out of Winston-Salem during the meaningless third doubles contest in order to catch their plane back...