Word: seat
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Round Table of the film, while beautiful, simply does not match the original story's Table which supposedly filled an entire banquet hall and could seat 150 knights...
...renowned for the open bar, catered buffet and Vegas-caliber pizazz. On one occasion, the glad-handing Democratic politician glided dramatically into the darkened room at the wheel of a vintage sports car. Another time he motored across a bed of ice on a growling snowmobile. At $200 a seat, or $500 during re-election years, the admission price was considered cheap because it also bought a few private words with the most powerful man in New Jersey's largest city...
...travel, after all? In order to have a paper sash over the toilet seat? To enjoy a comfortable, momentary change of perspective--a vacation as the equivalent of rolling over in one's sleep? Or to lose oneself? To pass through distance into some new place where the eyes become capable, for a moment, of a fresh transparency. Slide into the Pleistocene: under a thorn tree in Masai Mara, say, a cheetah tears at the Thomson's gazelle it has nailed for lunch. All around in a semicircle, the minibuses sprout glaring bwanas from their sunroofs. The onion peels...
...shed tears not only for him but for all the young men who have gone before him and those who will follow after going on dangerous missions. I am the mother of an Air Force pilot. I pray for him fervently because he flies an aircraft from which seat ejection is impossible. Beverly Neuman Paradise, California...
Everyone, maybe, except Howard, whose career disappointments have been precious few. Yet he is typically modest about the technical feat of making Apollo 13. "I always feel like I'm flying by the seat of my pants," he says, chuckling. "I could carry the analogy further and say I haven't even come close to making a movie on autopilot yet. I hope I never...