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...warbirds flew over Florida, however. No one can help but pay attention to the racket of pistons firing individually, a sound gone out of modernity. Nowadays jets scream, and cars, even motorcycles, hum. A spectator, Cal Buchanan from Orlando, a "grease monkey from way back yonder," ventured that "I came along when you could hear what was wrong with a motor 90% of the time. Good ears and 50 cents'll get you a cup of coffee these days, if you shop around." As a gorgeous P-38 rattled down the field, Buchanan called its tubercular chorus "music" and gave...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: American Scene | 1/17/1986 | See Source »

...Austin City Limits honky tonk, kicks off side two. After "Get Back to the Country," it's the album's strongest song. Next up, the title cut, is a classic Waylon-style "Gonna quit this drugs and drinkin" confessional. It's one of Young's funniest pieces since "Yonder Stands the Sinner...

Author: By Peter J. Howe, | Title: Neil Young Goes Twang | 9/26/1985 | See Source »

Before long, new plants may be built in the wild blue yonder...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Space: Business Heads for Zero Gravity | 11/26/1984 | See Source »

...From yonder pile I founded...

Author: By Richard L. Callan, | Title: 100 Dears of Solitude | 4/28/1984 | See Source »

...yonder stand the thirsty cottonwoods (planted there a century ago by Army officers trying to please their wives) that indicate water, in this case the Rio Grande. And there, by a washed-out footbridge, a bandanna round his forehead and a bolo tie, secured by a silver-and-turquoise slide, round his neck, stands Domingo Atencio, the beginning of this tale...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In New Mexico: Privacy Without Reservation | 4/9/1984 | See Source »

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