Word: skins
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...cycle" -- one takeoff, one landing -- which requires that the cabin be pressurized for high-altitude flight and then depressurized during descent. This places stress on the airframe; over time, repeated expansion and contraction weaken the plane. Like a balloon that has been inflated too many times, the plane's skin becomes vulnerable to tearing. But while the Flight 811 jet has been in service for 19 years and is one of the oldest in United's fleet, it had racked up only 15,021 cycles, considered middle-aged for a 747 but not dangerous...
...with a growing black middle class, the enormous expansion of political power epitomized by Jackson's presidential campaigns, and a burgeoning sympathy with the struggle against South African apartheid, yet another shift may be taking place. Jackson argues that "black tells you about skin color and what side of town you live on. African American evokes a discussion of the world." It was Ramona H. Edelin, president of the National Urban Coalition, who actually proposed the switch in December at a Chicago meeting of black leaders, including Jackson, that was held to plan a summit to set a black agenda...
...Edwards has been unable to recreate his past glory in any of his more recent projects. The director of such cinematic disasters as Blind Date and Sunset, Edwards sinks to new lows with Skin Deep. Discerning viewers will note that three recent Edwards films, The Man Who Loved Women (1983), Micky and Maude (1984) and now Skin Deep are all virtually indistinguishable. They are also all really bad. Perhaps what Edwards has been trying to do with all these films is to recreate the limited success he found in the Dudley Moore/Bo Derek film 10 (1979). If this is Edwards...
...event, Skin Deep is, once again, the story of a man who can't settle down and commit to one single woman. You see, this man really loves women, and he's scared of dying or something like that. Anyway, he drinks a lot, and oh, yeah, this guy is an author with writer's block, and he really loves his ex-wife. But he cheated on her, and she threw him out and now he wants her back. You know the story...
...there's really no real reason to care about the plot of Skin Deep, and there's no reason to care about any of the film's characters, for that matter. I certainly didn't care whether or not Zach got back together with his wife--the film didn't give any insight into either character. I didn't care whether or not Zach stops drinking, or whether he ever writes another book. The only thing Skin Deep really made me care about was...where can I get some glow-in-the dark condoms...