Word: rendezvouses
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Aboard each of the two-man, tvvin-engined jets was a Navy pilot and a radar-intercept officer, whose job was to navigate and handle communications. Each mile of the transcontinental trip was meticulously plotted, and electronic computers calculated the precise place and time at which mid-air refueling would...
Hit the Beach. On D-day-minus-one, a fleet of invasion ships, painted black and equipped with guns and radar in New Orleans, steamed toward Cuba. That afternoon Miró and his Revolutionary Council were driven from Manhattan to Philadelphia by the CIA and flown to a secret rendezvous...
But Prince Souphanouvong, dazzled by his exposure to French socialism, turned left. He moved to Hanoi, married a Vietnamese girl, began consorting with the Viet Minh revolutionists, who were plotting the overthrow of Indo-China's French masters. In 1949, he set off on a 40-day trek through...
Rendezvous in Senlis (translated from the French of Jean Anouilh by Edward Owen Marsh), though early and playful Anouilh, has all his earmarks and tooth marks, his jarring flavors, his jolting banter, his cactus-spined nonsense. It is also as often wordy as witty, and wayward as skillful. In a...
Rendezvous provides another very Anouilhan clash of sentiment and cynicism, another dream of the pure in a world of the tarnished. As playwriting it never fulfills its bright first-act promise; along with what is striking and amusing, there ensues too much babble of talk and muddle of tone. It...