Word: phantoms
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...This hand," bespectacled George Day, 53, is saying Saturday morning as he gestures at a half-closed fist, the right one, attached to a misshapen forearm. Day, now a wealthy Florida lawyer, was an Air Force major, a downed Phantom pilot. In 1967 a crowd of Vietnamese villagers watched as a rope was tied around his elbows and tightened with a foot jammed into his back. A ferret-faced man the P.O.W.s nicknamed "the Rodent," seized Day's right arm and twisted until the cracked bones broke through the flesh. The bone, gaping from Day's arm like...
Today the kibbutz is especially busy. As I spend the morning working in the citrus , I see Israeli warplanes flying overhead inpairs--probably Phantom jets or F-15s. The beauty of the Galilee Mountains contrasts sharply with the noises and reality of war. Later in the day, I hear several helicoptors landing near Hanita. The kibbutz's dirt road is freshly marked with tank tracks...
Whether or not DePalma's perversities appeal to you, and you have nothing to be ashamed of if they don't, you must at least concede that he's flamboyant, like his protagonist in The Phantom of Paradise a virtuoso gone ga-ga, which puts him far ahead of literal-minded bores like Richard Donner and Michael Crichton. His last film, Carrie, was a gory, silly, outrageous, and incredibly beautiful piece of movie-making--far more structured, spare, and cohesive than The Fury, and unfortunately, a far more satisfying movie...
...like a barber's chair, to ease the punishing pull of gravity in sharp turns and loops. As a result, says Rider: "you are as comfortable in a 7.5-G turn in the F-16 as you were at about 5 Gs in the F-4 Phantom...
...nation's arms merchants, it must often seem like the week before Christmas. Customers keep flocking in to inspect the shiny new toys, and sales keep booming. In recent months the U.S. has sold 18 F-4 Phantom jets to South Korea for $164 million, a guided-missile frigate to Australia ($183 million) and antitank missiles to Sweden and Switzerland ($155 million). While Egyptian President Anwar Sadat was pressing at Camp David for up to 120 of America's F-5E Tiger fighter-bombers totaling close to half a billion dollars, Israel was seeking two dozen of the faster...