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Psst... want to buy a hot 50-ton bulldozer...
...U.S.S. Hewitt is typical of the new style of U.S. warship. Officially, it is classified as a destroyer, but its 7,000-ton displacement is more than three times that of a World War II Fletcher-class destroyer. One deck below the bridge on this modern ship, inside the dimly lit combat information center, highly trained specialists bend over computer consoles that monitor the sonar and radar and control the guns, torpedoes and antisubmarine weapons. The 5-in. cannons fore and aft are fired by two men sitting at a console rather than by eleven World War II sailors scrambling...
...cruise for longer periods and have greater battle endurance than the Soviet vessels. Russian submarines are noisier than their U.S. counterparts and therefore easier to detect and destroy. Before firing their missiles, some of these vessels must surface, betraying their positions. The Soviets' sole carrier, the 40,000-ton Kiev (two more are being built), can launch only subsonic vertical-takeoff planes and helicopters, and thus lacks the offensive punch of the U.S. big-deck carriers. These disadvantages, however, do not significantly reduce the Soviet threat at sea because Russia's wartime aims are easier to achieve than America...
...said. "But we could not, because of obstructing hills and high-tension wires." Finally, with fuel running out after 90 minutes of searching, Kim decided to set down on a frozen lake near the town of Kem and gamble that the ice would support his plane's 100-ton weight. The 707 slid to a stop just short of a hill at the lake's edge. Kim shouted: "We have survived!" and the passengers burst into applause. Two hours later, the first Soviet troops appeared...
West Side Story. Well. Well well. Hmmm.... Yes. Hate to say it, but I think this film is shit. That's a highly personal opinion--the movie won a ton of Oscars and has left millions sobbing away for poor Natalie Wood. Steal "Romeo and Juliet"--or borrow it under the pretense of "relevantizing" it (as if it weren't already relevant), throw in some beautiful and awful songs and bits of schlockified Copland by Leonard Bernstein, give it a pseudo-daring "tough" script by ol' Arthur Laurents.... well, the ingredients are right for a classic stage, and then film...