Word: twinned
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...soon as it hit the forward fuselage of the three-jet Boeing 727, the twin-engined Cessna disintegrated in a yellow fireball. For a few seconds, the bigger plane looked like a wounded quail struggling for control. Then, still airborne, it too exploded, raining debris over a mile-and-a-half area near Hendersonville, N.C. "I could see bodies falling like confetti," said a witness. One crashed through the roof of a house. Another fell in a filling station, others on highways and trees. Miraculously, no one on the ground was injured. But all 82 people aboard the two planes...
Dotty Commentary. Nabokov's twin loves, says Field, are art and words. There are artists in virtually all his books, usually failed or mad artists. More often his heroes are demented chess players, professors, homosexuals, murderers. Writes Field: "Madness and art are always in each other's presence in Nabokov's prose," because the demands of art and life are incompatible...
...been referred to as Ed the Eagle. A licensed pilot, he is a dedicated weekend flyer. It was Hughes who inspired and helped report our recent story [July 7] on the fad of crossing the Atlantic in small aircraft. Flying as copilot with a professional who was ferrying a twin-engined Piper Aztec from Boston to Geneva, Hughes crossed in three days of which twenty hours were actual flying time. There were stops for fueling in Gander, a haircut in Reykjavik, and golf in Prestwick. Then, vacationing in Europe, Hughes escaped rain in Switzerland by flying to Spain. On that...
...Europe (two Purple Hearts and a Silver Star) in World War II. He joined New York Central in 1952, quickly moved up the ranks to become executive vice president in 1962. At Flying Tiger, it won't hurt that he is a licensed pilot who flies his own twin-engined Aero Commander, goes so far as to call his new job a "merger of avocation and vocation." Says Prescott of his new colleague: "This guy is a brain. He's gutsy too. He wants to swing, wants to do things." The way it sounds, Hoffman should fit right...
Along the way, the film turns into a tortuous tour of off-beat waterfront locales. There is a sadistic scene in a squash court, a shoot-out in a hall of mirrors, and a visit to a floating brothel full of identical-twin prostitutes. Long before the ending, the movie has been swallowed up in affected effects and ponderous expository scenes. Despite occasional sprightly echoes of his past repartee, and despite a large cast of competent character actors, Gunn seems of much smaller caliber than he was in the living room...