Word: groundedness
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Cuban authorities quickly discredited the prize defector. For most of his career, they said, Del Pino had been a lowly flight instructor. He was grounded in January for psychological stress and eyesight problems, they added, and was assigned to organize an air force museum.
Indeed, the nagging suspicion among American space observers that the Soviet Union is pulling ahead of the U.S. is turning into reality. While the American space program is gridlocked over when and how to deploy a space station, for example, the Soviet Mir (Peace) station, up for more than a...
The time is past when one could dismiss Wyeth as nothing more that a sentimental illustrator, as critics irked by his popular appeal regularly did a decade or more ago. True, his work is grounded in illustration and often fails to transcend it. Not a few of the images of...
This Jekyll-Hyde tactic works well enough until Shen Te falls in love with a grounded pilot (James Andreassi), whose sole desire in life is to fly. She sees in him the romantic dreamer--he sees in her the ticket to a pilot's job in Peking. Passion, betrayal, a...
To be sure, May has sent her plot sense out for assertiveness training. One recognizes her terrible songsters as authentic May characters; she has always had compassion for articulate, depressed dreamers grounded in reality only by two left feet. With visions of Simon and Garfunkel galumphing through their minds, the...