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...were awake. Some made last-minute checks of the weather, while others gently assembled the spindly pink-silver-and-white plane and carried it to the runway. At 7:06 Kanellopoulos eased his 156-lb. frame into the cockpit and began pedaling down the tarmac. "I was expecting the takeoff to be horrible," he recalls. "But it was great with the tail winds that...
...theater you finally develop a whole, and your energy is put into rhythm and pacing. In film, you must be ready at any time for 'takeoff,'" Hunt said during a question and answer session following a screening of her televised performance in Harold Pinter's play, "The Room...
...fine technique, but hardly when the job involves piloting an aircraft loaded with passengers. The Federal Aviation Administration last week said it would investigate the training procedures at Continental Airlines after one of the carrier's pilots admitted that on several flights he had made deliberate mistakes prior to takeoff -- like setting the plane's wing flaps in the wrong position and misstating the aircraft's weight -- in order to test the skills and alertness of his copilot...
Standing over my seat in the airplane, he shadowboxes with the empty aisle just darkened for takeoff: "It's like a fighter who's got his guard up high, looking over at 'the Bear' " -- his head periscopes over his hands -- "and you expose yourself to these terrible body blows. Drugs." His midsection abruptly gives under the imagined punch, but the hands stay up. "Debt." He buckles again. "The purchasing of America. Energy." It is Jesse Jackson's analysis of the gut dismay he finds in contemporary America. He is an ecumenical collector of dismays...
After his shadowboxing in the airplane's aisle, Jackson, still standing up during takeoff, told me, "President Reagan said something that should have got more attention from the press. He said the last 40 years had not been good for the West. These last 40 years have been the most exciting and liberating for the world. Whole empires have fallen, new nations been created, people taken charge of their own lives. What Reagan meant is that all those little ss in the U.N. have been beating up on us for 40 years -- us, Somoza, us, Batista, us, Marcos...