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...happen for the rest of the action. They're practiced experts at predicting outcomes because the stuff on the tube has strict boundaries; it flows judiciously in the Nielsen main stream. What sustains a movie, then--because it can aim for a more limited audience--is that sense of whoosh-we're-taking-off-and-this-could-go-anywhere, a sense of being carried away...
...were using poor tactics. They would have faced a formidable barrier around the rebel rocket sites: antitank mines and rockets, antipersonnel mines and machine-gun nests. So far, the best the government has been able to do is sneak observers forward near the rocket belt; when they hear the whoosh of a missile leaving its tube, the observers push a button that triggers warning sirens at Pochentong Airport and in the capital. Insurgents also broke through a small section of the North Dike Road, the last line of defense before Phnom-Penh's northwestern suburbs and the airport...
...ocean before telling the Captain, "Lead me on." At the very end, while the Clown sings the stanzas of "When that I was," the remaining characters gradually depart, leaving him alone; when he is finished, he turns his back on us and gazes off across the water, whose whoosh is the last thing we hear...
...dawn to watch the train refuel before it heads across the 500-mile plain of Nullarbor (Latin for "not any tree"). The desolate limestone plateau is covered with sea fossils, saltbush, and red-flowering wild hops. Weird subterranean winds whistle through caves honeycombing the limestone, and whoosh with an eerie trumpeting from gaping blowholes. Over one stretch known as "the long straight," the track runs dead ahead for 297 miles, the longest straightway railroad in the world. There was a "loco" driver at Cook named Kevin Smith who, they say, did not go round a bend for five years...
...style of Horovitz's novel is really not far removed from his playwrighting style. The long flashbacks are very much like actors' soliloquies. His word choice is suggestive; he picks sounds out of the air and puts them into the sentences: "The daggered scoops drove heartily into each bale whoosh picked it up VZZZ carried it to the baths." He repeats words and sometimes even phrases in an effort to tie together ideas, though he is not as successful at it as Kurt Vonnegut. His connections do not possess the absurdity which enables Vonnegut to weave entirely distinct happenings into...