VL-IV (15) Tubal Nuances, pages 355/356, 370/371, 377/378

[Dave Monroe]

On Tue, Apr 21, 2009 at 11:55 AM, Robin Landseadel
<robinlandseadel at comcast.net> wrote:

> So much of what happens in the last chapter of Vineland depends on the kinds
> of scripts we followed on the Tube. The author at the same time is
> ramrodding us with some of the most outrageous parodies of the re-framing of
> history offered up by the Tube.
>
>        . . .Rumors filtered back from the cabin that the air controllers
>        down there sounded like they used to in Vietnam, none of the
>        usual civilians were on the job, and there was heavy traffic on
>        all the military frequencies. . .

http://eightiesclub.tripod.com/id296.htm
http://www.workers.org/2006/us/patco-0817/
http://etext.virginia.edu/journals/EH/EH37/Pels.html
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=5604656
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Professional_Air_Traffic_Controllers_Organization_(1968)#August_1981_strike