Word: takeoff
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...signal from earth it fired its three vernier engines, rose ten feet from the surface and then landed again, eight feet from its original site. It was the first rocket-powered takeoff from the face of the moon...
...Kenyatta, a smug Queen Victoria or a lurching Foreign Secretary George Brown, sputtering: "I'm having to solve the Viet Nam war, and you don't see pictures of me doing that, do you? No! You see pictures of me doing the hokey-pokey!" In a recent takeoff on BBC documentaries, he played a mustachioed producer, a brandy-guzzling announcer, an unemployed lathe operator-and the entire British Cabinet. In last week's skit, Bird was a lisping Field Marshal Montgomery who passes up a "Violence for Peace" demonstration to go to Viet Nam and take lessons...
...difficult to keep the guest list unofficial. Moreover, a Washington bash would certainly have increased pressures on the young couple. Jack Foisie, a Los Angeles Times foreign correspondent and brother of Mrs. Rusk, explained to the press that the families wanted "to give the kids a break on the takeoff, because they're going to have enough problems." Not incidentally, the parents were set on eluding the antiwar pickets who dog Rusk's every appearance...
...emergency exits clogged after fuel from ruptured lines fed a fire in the cabin. Two years ago, another 41 died in a similar accident that involved a 727 jet in Salt Lake City. Since 1961, in fact, more than 270 persons have been killed in survivable landing or takeoff accidents...
...title of the movie is a takeoff on I, A Woman, a sleazy bit of Swedish pornography about nymphomania that unaccountably was a hit on the U.S. art-house circuit last spring. Though both films are ostensibly about the heterosexual search for love, Man is really something else. There is more display of bosoms than in a South Seas documentary, but Torn steals the skin show every time, as the camera affectionately concentrates on him while it caricatures the girls...