Word: take-off
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...recent roar of jet airplanes over Cambridge is due to icy Canadian gusts that are forcing air traffic controllers at Logan airport to divert the take-off pattern of these planes, an administrator at Massport said yesterday...
...then gives her a tape recorder playing the tune to which he had whisked her off her feet the night before. Cut to a bar, where our man casually watches the television, which announces that an Alitalia jet with 86 people aboard had just blown up after take-off, probably due to a terrorist bomb planted on the craft planted on the craft just prior to fateful departure. Ho ho ho. Certainly this is no stab at humor, but even as a piece of wry social comment, it still fails. Isn't Starsky and Hutch enough...
Birsh has by far the most difficult role and he comes up with mixed results. His insane ravings are often touching or comic, but the role is somewhat difficult to maintain. At times he reaches deep pathos and then he degenerates into a take-off of David Frye's Nixon. He has excellent lines with which to work but he still needs to develop a true feeling of what insanity is like...
...plane finally arrived, and they sat for 90 minutes wondering if they were going to make it. It was one of those planes with the For Sale sign still taped to one of the wings. It shook upon take-off. It bounced upon landing. It didn't matter, though, because while they made it to Ithaca, they didn't score...
...longer a progressive impulse, but a hindrance. Expressionism had transformed itself from a "movement" into a "school" whose rules had become obsolete. The selectivity of the Bergen collection makes it easy to carefully observe the development of Expressionism. These drawings are chronicles of individual and collective progress: a take-off, a jump, a landing at a new starting point...