Word: slipstream
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...Everyone old is new again: From Away From Her, a late-life love story starring Julie Christie, 65, and Gordon Pinsent, 76, to Clubland, in which Brenda Blethyn, 60, plays a raucous comedian, to Slipstream, the directorial debut of Anthony Hopkins, 69, to King of California, in which Michael Douglas, 62, is a man just released from a mental hospital, and even to the Apollo space mission documentary In the Shadow of the Moon, which had Buzz Aldrin, 77, cruising the streets of Park City, some of the biggest stars of the youth-obsessed festival were 60-plus. Perhaps Hollywood...
...policy chief Douglas Feith, who created a special intelligence office to iron out what hard-liners believed were imperfections in the CIA's too evenhanded work--will be departing the policymaking arena. Though he was never as doctrinaire as many people believed, Rumsfeld swam comfortably in the hard-liners' slipstream for months. Now, without those guys on point, he moves much more carefully. His aides say he would like to remain in place at least through the fall...
...course, the slipstream of security fears hasn't lifted all charter operators. "Security managers at many Swedish companies have forbidden all types of flying," bemoans Trond Michaelsen, owner of Aircraft Charter World in Stockholm. "They see terrorists everywhere." Michaelsen expected a surge in business after the terror attacks; instead corporate security fiats have halved his trade. And some executives may worry that the smaller planes many charter firms use aren't as safe as commercial airliners, though the figures are equivocal. In any case, Michaelsen expects his business to rebound within six months...
...then again, those rich guys didn?t get rich by hanging onto run-up stocks in a market that likely still has some ballast to dump before it can genuinely find the slipstream...
Suddenly people all over the country are talking about "ecstasy" as if it were something other than what an eight-year-old feels at Disney World. Occasionally the trickle from the fringe to the heartland turns into a slipstream, and that seems to have happened with the heart-pulsing, mildly psychedelic drug called ecstasy. To get a sense of just how far and fast "e" has moved into American communities in the past year or so, talk to Mark Bradford, a junior at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign...