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...make you wait for six hours with 500 other passengers in an area which was once a restroom. We'll sit the plane on the runway for three hours and tell you repeatedly that takeoff will be `in five minutes.' We'll smile and give you a dish labelled `chicken' which will really turn out to be rotting meat...

Author: By Joshua M. Sharfstein, | Title: The Airline With an Attitude | 7/11/1989 | See Source »

ACTUALLY, I enjoyed the six-hour delay en route to Israel and the three-hour delay (on the runway) on the way back. It's not like I get pleasure from delays, per se. It's just that I love watching my relatives deal with them...

Author: By Joshua M. Sharfstein, | Title: The Airline With an Attitude | 7/11/1989 | See Source »

...very substantial way," but he studiously avoided being pinned down to a figure.) Thus, they insisted, the project would force tax increases that Denver residents could not afford. The two main airlines servicing Denver, United and Continental, point out that Stapleton still has 25 unused gates; some expansion of runway capacity, they argued, was all that was needed. But the vote made it obvious that few citizens listened. It is only in the nation's booming Seattles, it seems, that residents can ask, What price growth? In the depressed Denvers, even the hope of growth seems to be worth almost...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Urban Growing Pains | 5/29/1989 | See Source »

Four years ago, the world watched anxiously as TWA Flight 847 sat on a runway in Beirut airport and 39 American passengers were held hostage for 17 days by gunslinging hijackers. Among the most horrifying images in the intense TV coverage: the body of U.S. Navy diver Robert Stethem, 23, being dumped onto the tarmac. Last week, after a ten-month trial, a Frankfurt court sentenced Lebanese-born Mohammed Ali Hammadi, 24, to life in prison for his role in the hijacking and Stethem's murder. Unable to determine whether Stethem was shot by Hammadi or a second hijacker, still...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: West Germany: Justice for Flight 847 | 5/29/1989 | See Source »

Named after Vogue magazine, the underground craze now seems posed -- er, ! poised -- to break into the mainstream for its 15 minutes of fame. Fashion designer Thierry Mugler imported two voguers from New York to camp it up on the runway at his recent Paris show, and teens are getting glimpses of vogueing in a music video playing on MTV, singer Taylor Dayne's Tell It to My Heart. The craze has already spread to Chicago. Predicts New York City video producer David Bronstein: "I see a lot of choreographers who could be influenced. I see a big crossover there...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Living: They're Puttin' On the Vogue | 5/22/1989 | See Source »

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