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...systems. Technicians sealed the airtight double hatch plates and pumped pure oxygen into the little chamber. The test countdown had proceeded for several hours when suddenly, over their radio link to the spacecraft, controllers heard the cry "Fire aboard the spacecraft!" followed by movements, more shouts and a sharp scream of pain. "It was horrible," recalled a former NASA official. "We could hear it happening and we were powerless to do anything...
...raced upward through the ranks, never remaining in one job for more than two years. Then, in 1980, at the age of 41, Samuel Armacost was named chief executive of BankAmerica. "My first inclination was to jump and scream," he later recalled. No wonder: Armacost was about to begin managing the world's largest and most profitable financial firm...
They looked up the day the warbirds flew over Florida, however. No one can help but pay attention to the racket of pistons firing individually, a sound gone out of modernity. Nowadays jets scream, and cars, even motorcycles, hum. A spectator, Cal Buchanan from Orlando, a "grease monkey from way back yonder," ventured that "I came along when you could hear what was wrong with a motor 90% of the time. Good ears and 50 cents'll get you a cup of coffee these days, if you shop around." As a gorgeous P-38 rattled down the field, Buchanan called...
...fourth voice (a "recurrent scream of disorder," writes Sullivan), Katharine Andrews does very little to endow her part with the quirky originality in tone and movement with which the other performances spoil...
...sense of fun and abandon that characterizes Holmes and has been the hallmark of Spielberg's past work. To his credit, Spielberg has not asked to be taken seriously as an artist and he delivers entertainment and good will like no one since Frank Capra. But movies like Holmes scream nouveau riche. There is never room for understatement, never a scene or effect down-played. Everything must be the most expensive, the most elaborate. Spielberg has always been exhausting to watch, but never emotionally fulfilling. How can we care about the characters when the moviemakers are not willing to give...