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WASHINGTON: Can anybody rewire this plane? With all the calm panic-prevention skills of an airline stewardess, the National Transportation Safety Board recommended Tuesday the rewiring of fuel tanks in more than 750 Boeing 747 jets. ?Unsafe conditions... may exist in other older B-747s and should be addressed by the Federal Aviation Administration,? wrote NTSB chief Jim Hall Tuesday...
Vegas has several thrill rides. There's the roller-coaster at the top of Stratosphere, the human slingshot at the MGM Grand Hotel, the skydiving just outside of town and the small plane trips into the Grand Canyon. Just outside town are the only legalized brothels in the nation, which count as a thrill ride of sorts...
...annals of Clintonian scandal, March 1998 may be remembered as a month of sideshows: the rise and fall of Kathleen Willey; a putative White House plot to smear Ken Starr's deputies; a wave of supposed Clinton paramours rising from the files of the Paula Jones case; a campaign-plane flight attendant named Cristy Zercher who says she was groped by Clinton but came so late to the party that her tabloid story fetched only about $50,000. But now, 11 weeks after the independent counsel began his search for misbehavior and cover-up, the scandal is finally circling back...
...into the Feb. 3 Italian ski-lift tragedy blamed the jet fighter's crew for the deaths of 20 people. But a closer read yields an interesting discrepancy. On the one hand, the flight of the EA-6B PROWLER was described as a hair-raising ride, in which the plane flew too low and too fast until the collision. On the other was the description of crew members, whom colleagues and commanders praised for their flying skills and professionalism. And all the 35 EA-6B flyers interviewed said they had never heard of anyone flying too low, too fast...
However, by concentrating so much on the sexualdeviances of the characters, a further dimensionof intellectual social commentary beyond thesubject of sex is lost. Orton's play, whileadmittedly poking fun at society's ridiculousapprehensions towards sex, also engages on a levelof social, democratic and metaphysical discourse.This plane is too easily lost in the muddle ofsexual farce as entertainment. But despite theirnarrow focus, the Loeb Ex production of Butlerclearly succeeds at least on this level--it istruly a hilarious and frolicking show.CrimsonLinda S. CuckovichNaked hi-jinks abound in Orton farce...