Airport (1970) introduced many tropes so closely associated with the 70s disaster genre: the reverence for—and subsequent destabilization of—then-new technologies, in this case the Boeing 707; a miasma of soap-operaish subplots; and huge all-star casts slumming for easy paychecks.
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Posted inColumns & Opinion
Local leaders and advocates agree: Biden’s $2T infrastructure package would be great for Chicago transportation
Biden’s $2T infrastructure package would dramatically beef up funding for transit, vehicle electrification, and Amtrak.
Posted inNews & Politics
‘I walked right out of Terminal 5 and into the city’
Only a few days before the travel ban, there seemed to be little concern about screening passengers at O’Hare for coronavirus.
Posted inCity Life
An airport in the lake
How Mayor Richard J. Daley’s ambitious plan failed to take flight
Posted inFilm
Reach out, touch somebody, and die
In Contagion, your next kiss (or cocktail peanut) could be fatal
Posted inReader
A Second Rate Imitation, Watered Down Simulation
Back and forth and then back and then forth again. Circles kinda make me dizzy and I can’t think clearly when I’m dizzy.