Word: runway
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...seat for his flying needs. It makes it easier to get to the bathroom, they say, and affords you a better chance of beating the crowd when you reach your final destination. To hell with efficiency; I always choose the window seat. And then I stare out. At the runway whizzing by, then at the crazily tilted world below as we climb, nose first, into the air. On clear days, I try to catch a glimpse of cities below. (Flying up the East Coast, you can make out all of Manhattan--the shape of the island, the green of Central...
...soldiers on the tarmac push the hysterical crowds back with rifle butts, Abkhazian gunners train their fire on the runway. Those who do manage to clamber into an outbound plane discover that they have boarded a flying morgue. The backs of seats are pushed forward to accommodate stretchers bearing soldiers too critically injured to survive the 35-minute flight to Tbilisi. What little space remains is packed with refugees who even wedge themselves into the toilets, indifferent to the stench. The situation is horrific, but now that the Abkhazian artillery has made evacuation by sea impossible, the only remaining exit...
...about "magic"--the myth of love at first sight--which reduces love and romance to superficial attraction. Hanks sees Ryan on an airport runway and instantly he's in love. Not a word. Not a shared experience. Meg Ryan is blonde and gorgeous. Falling in "love" with her at first sight isn't magical It's isn't magical. It's biology...
...Winfrey on wheels. The most perceptive question pollsters ask is whether the respondent believes that the President cares about people like you. Unless Clinton is pursuing a 40% strategy, he might consider spending more time in Arkansas than in L.A. And in a barber chair, not a traffic-stopping runway salon...
...this point, I thought why not just go home? But I wanted it all. I followed the teams off the court, down the runway and into the locker room...