Word: wind
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...seemed assured that the Senate Governmental Affairs Committee would grant the delay. But last week, after newspapers covered Lance with the appearance of new improprieties, the committee stalled and invited him to testify this week. That forced Lance, as Tennessee Democrat James Sasser put it, "to twist in the wind for a few more days...
...adjustment of his ailerons. He has 25 different costumes and perhaps six different kinds of capes-for standing, sitting, flying and coming in for a landing. He is now wearing his flying cape, which is stretched out with wires so that it appears to billow in the wind. The changes made, he goes back into the air, accompanied by cheers from local residents who are hanging out of windows. "Hey, Supraman, why cantcha get the cat?" someone shouts in that rich blend of gravel and adenoids known as Brooklynese. "Thattaboy, Supraman!" yells another when he actually touches the dusty beast...
...scheme would offer a measure of certainty for travelers who would not care to wind up loitering at the airport waiting for a seat-as they could under the TWA or Laker plans. But stand-by service might appeal more to those unable to make their reservations well in advance, as Pan Am will require. Unlike Laker, whose stripped-down service will not include meals, drinks or movies, both Pan Am and TWA plan to offer their discount passengers all the economy-class amenities, perhaps at a small surcharge over the Skytrain price for some of them. Also, both American...
...British links were handicrafted by the interaction of water and wind over the epochs so that it was only left up to the Marquis of Ailsa to realize what an excellent site he had at hand for a golf course. The making of a links is feelingly described by Sir Guy Campbell who writes in his A History of Golf in Britain: "In the formation and over-all stabilization of out island coastlines, the sea at intervals of time and distance gradually receded from the higher ground of cliff, bluff, and escarpment to and from which the tides once flowed...
...delays the film's slide into silliness with a surprisingly moving scene in which he clings to his humanity despite Moreau's attempt to use him as an experiment in reverse evolution. But the beast-people are getting restless, and a B-movie Apocalypse is in the wind. Clearly there are some cosmic ironies about God, nature, man and beast lurk ing in all this. But it is probably best to follow the film's example and not think about them...