Word: tarmac
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...VIENNA: With slender, frosted-glass partitions, lots of whitewash, and modish furnishings in cheery blues and reds, Austrian Airlines has created an appropriately airy ambience at its Business Lounge Plaza in Vienna. The second-story space overlooks the tarmac and features a particularly well-equipped business center, Zen-inspired dried floral arrangements and walls decorated with playfully large depictions of spring flowers and clouds...
...VIENNA: With slender, frosted-glass partitions, lots of whitewash, and modish furnishings in cheery blues and reds, Austrian Airlines has created an appropriately airy ambience at its Business Lounge Plaza in Vienna. The second-story space overlooks the tarmac and features a particularly well-equipped business center, Zen-inspired dried floral arrangements and walls decorated with playfully large depictions of spring flowers and clouds. HONG KONG: It's been open for seven years, but The Wing - Cathay Pacific's stylishly minimalist lounge at Hong Kong International Airport - has lost none of its flair and continues to appear at, or near...
...reciting the Lord’s Prayer and the hijackers again praying as the plane sways towards the velvet Appalachians. “United 93” is a superbly shot film, with strikingly poignant sequences that heighten the spiritual feel—the airplanes lined up on the tarmac looking fuzzy in the boiling heat of their engines, the Twin Towers burning desperately through a window of the banking plane. Greengrass uses a soft focus and grainy film to create a washed-out effect, which does work to bring out the jumpy chaos as the realization of the tragedy...
...Card, 58, sat in the jump seat of the cockpit of the Boeing 747-200B for the landing. At 8:50 p.m., just after Air Force One touched down, Card hustled briskly down the front steps carrying a massive black briefcase, caught up to the President on the Tarmac, and walked him to the waiting Marine One chopper. Three minutes later, they flew off into the night...
...when they travel together, they make each other laugh. "Take the arrival at the airport in Bangladesh," says Bill. Given that there was a string of terrorist bombings in the days before their arrival, the military was out in force. And the tarmac was festooned in decorations to welcome the Gateses--including, bizarrely, a massive oil portrait of each. "She saw the army," says Bill, laughing. "She said, 'Hey, there's an army out here.' And I said, 'Yeah, wait until you see the picture of you. It's not too good.' It was just gigantic! You know, Mao would...