Word: starchier
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Johnny Case (John Glover), has made a killing in the stock market and wants to take off for the south of France or the South Seas. He yearns to sit under a tree and find himself. His starchy fiancée, Julia Seton (Robin Pearson Rose), and her even starchier father want Johnny to stay in the marts of finance and be a golden grind. But Johnny's dream of freedom excites Julia's older sister Linda (Charlotte Moore), herself a stifled and smoldering maverick. At play's end, she and Johnny flee together...
...younger pilots are a curious combination of professional soldier and green high school graduate: If they are not in one of the starchier units like the 101st, they decorate their machines like so many jalopies-or minibuses. Wicked-looking to begin with, Cobras are even more fearsome when shark's teeth, skulls or lightning bolts are painted on them. And naturally, there are names. One Huey sports THE GRIM REAPER. A gunship is emblazoned with KILLING IS OUR BUSINESS AND BUSINESS is GOOD. Then there is the black pilot, possibly mythical, who flies a UH-1 named-what else...
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