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	Airport novel - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Airport novels represent a literary genre that is not so much defined by its plot or cast of stock characters, as much as it is by the social function it serves.
		An airport novel is typically a fairly long but fast-paced novel of intrigue or adventure that is stereotypically found in the reading fare offered by airport newsstands for travellers to read in the rounds of sitting and waiting that constitute air travel.
		Whatever the genre, airport novels typically contain pages of explicit description of sexual encounters, often to the point of pornography; unlike pictorial pornography, an elaborate sexual fantasy that appears only in text can be enjoyed by the reader without making it too obvious to the other passengers what is being read.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Airport_novel (901 words)

	The Novel of the Holocaust
		Walking through the airport, the Novel of the Holocaust talks to himself, remembering storefronts and round, growling buses, letters in precise handwriting--the age that passed while he was waking up, shrugging off the losses of his boyhood.
		The Novel of the Holocaust has no brothers or sisters, no wife or husband, no children, only lovers, and those are inconstant, staying a week on their way to Greece or the Middle East.
		The Novel of the Holocaust's mother did the same thing when the Novel of the Holocaust had disappointed her or done something wrong (which was all the time).
	www.stewart-onan.com /html/the_novel_of_the_holocaust.html (3198 words)

	Airport (1970)
		Actually, 1954’s The High and the Mighty probably stands as the earliest instance of this genre, but Airport was the one that started the disaster film boom in the Seventies, so I count it as the most influential — for better or for worse.
		Based on the novel by Arthur Hailey, the film starts on a snowy day at Chicago’s Lincoln Airport, general manager Mel Bakersfeld (Burt Lancaster) tries to deal with the problems caused by the inclement weather.
		Since Airport hit the screens when I was only three, I was too young to see it, but I always wanted to check it out when I got into its sequels.
	www.dvdmg.com /airport.shtml (1414 words)

	DVD Bits - Region 4 and Region 1 DVD news, reviews, resources, PC-DVD, hardware
		One of the major differences is that "Airport" is not a simple tale of a disaster and it's consequences - but is, rather, a series of subplots woven together, surrounding a snowed-in airport, and a terrorist attempt over the Atlantic.
		Unfortunately, on this level, "Airport" fails to deliver - as it seems confused between what it ostensibly is - a disaster flick, tailor-made for popcorn and drive-ins - and a literate, complicated ensemble piece.
		Airport also captures the final moments of a landmark career - it was Dean Martin's last real success (Unless you count the "Cannonball Run" films, which I would prefer not to), and he is a pleasure to watch, although his "Dino" persona has well and truly been laid to rest.
	www.dvdbits.com /reviews.asp?id=853 (1107 words)

	airodyssey.net - "Airport"
		It was at the time when the Boeing 707 was king of the airports, and a lot of drama and an all-start cast made movies great.
		This means runway 29, the longest runway of the airport, is shut down, all flights have to use runway 22 (which is right next to Meadowood, a residential area), and the passengers of Global 45 have to use the mobile stairways!
		That is not the case in the novel.
	www.airodyssey.net /articles/movie-airport.html (1478 words)

	The Social Affairs Unit - Web Review: A New Genre: The Record Store Book
		"Airport novel" is a derogatory term conjuring up images of the latest Danielle Steel or Tom Clancy schlockbuster piled up high in Terminal B. It is shorthand for a weighty pot-boiler with just enough sex and violence scattered throughout to make Heathrow to JFK bearable.
		"Airport novel" seems an obsolete term now, although the masters of the genre continue to churn them out; anyone who has been in an airport recently will know that the bookshops now resemble the average high street emporium.
		Novels sold in record stores are either written by stand-up comedians or are "cult" novels.
	www.socialaffairsunit.org.uk /blog/archives/000327.php (1683 words)

	Halfbakery: Airport Pass
		These passes are tied to the airline ticket that is sold with them and are only good for the day and time of the airline ticket.
		The airport passes must be purchased at the same times as the airline ticket and must have the names of the people they are assighned to printed on them.
		The reason for the $10.00 charge is to offset the additional cost to the airline as well as providing another source of income for the struggeling airlines.
	www.halfbakery.com /idea/Airport_20Pass (1089 words)

	David Markson : This Is Not A Novel : A review by SPIKE magazine (via CobWeb/3.1 planet03.csc.ncsu.edu) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		One of the reasons why cultural commentators, such as the BBC's Andrew Marr, proclaim the death of the novel is because novels have become irredeemably classifiable.
		Novels that break the rules seem to be so mannered, so distant from the world we call real, that they demand to be classified as frivolous and elitist.
		And they seem all the more mannered and distant because the classifiable novel has become so refined, so intimate with the deceit of language, that we do not see them for the very odd objects they really are.
	www.spikemagazine.com.cob-web.org:8888 /0601thisisnotanovel.htm (1288 words)

	Author of 'Airport,' 'Hotel'; his books became hit movies \| The San Diego Union-Tribune
		In the 1968 novel "Airport," manager Mel Bakersfield faces a crisis when a mad bomber boards a flight.
		His first novel, "The Final Diagnosis," was published in 1959 – about a hospital pathologist who causes an infant's death by mistake.
		Sheila Hailey said she and his children plan a party to celebrate his life in January, as was his wish.
	www.signonsandiego.com /uniontrib/20041126/news_1n26hailey.html (532 words)

	Holiday season brings more passengers - and their pocketbooks - to Journal Record, The (Oklahoma City) - Find Articles
		Tulsa International Airport will see an increase in the number of passengers at the airport this holiday week, meaning a higher return for the airport, in more ways than one.
		With the holiday and the increased security measures requiring passengers to get to the airport sooner, most are left looking for something to do in down time before they board their flights, she said.
		While every airport is different, Passavanti said a general rule of thumb is that the airport receives a percentage of the gross sale revenues in some way.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_qn4182/is_20061122/ai_n16861093 (581 words)

	Towering Inferno by Fred Kaplan
		Airport rose to the top of bookselling charts in 1968—several years, by the way, before anyone outside the D.C. area had ever heard of Watergate, during a time when almost nobody was feeling any sores of the economy or guilt over Vietnam.
		Hunter produced AIRPORT from a novel that ten million Americans had read and found that he had a dynamite hit on his hands.
		The film, AIRPORT, recall, was released in 1970, at a time when many of the more traditional moviegoers were dropping out of the ranks because the big hits, the giants that the studios were trying to imitate, were films like BONNIE and CLYDE, EASY RIDER, MIDNIGHT COWBOY, THE GRADUATE.
	www.ejumpcut.org /archive/onlinessays/JC06folder/EarthqTowInferno.html (3218 words)

	Airport Novel Cartoons
		Airport Novel cartoon 1 - catalog reference rjo0029
		Copyright in this image is owned by the original artist, rights to reproduce or use the image may be obtained from www.CartoonStock.com.
		Airport Novel cartoon 2 - catalog reference ndi0353
	www.cartoonstock.com /directory/a/airport_novel.asp (195 words)

	The thrills in Turner Hospital - theage.com.au
		Turner Hospital, nomadic writer, US resident and world citizen, is a small woman in fl, high in a Collins Street tower hotel, admiring the view of the town where she was born.
		Her last novel, Oyster, had strong thriller elements, and the novel before that, The Last Magician, was about prostitution and crime in Sydney.
		She finds this a puzzling question, because although the novel is about modern American policy and its failings and corruption, it could be about any powerful nation at any time.
	www.theage.com.au /articles/2003/05/30/1054177726457.html (2028 words)

	Eye Weekly - Secret architecture - 10.21.04
		The novel's place on the Booker shortlist was more than deserved: its 35-year-old author has written a book about, and for, the ages.
		The surviving sections range from the eerie to the bittersweet to the hilarious, and Mitchell keeps his plots moving along with the rollercoaster-like twists which are becoming a hallmark of his writing.
		He recalls the novel's genesis: "Years and years ago, when I was first trying to get disciplined about writing and about being a novelist and sacrificing my incredibly active social life -- I am being ironic -- what I came up with was my first novel.
	www.eye.net /eye/issue/issue_10.21.04/arts/ifoa.php (1060 words)

	Morrison & Foerster : Legal Updates & News : In the News : U.S. Airport Finance Overview -- Outline of USAID Conference ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Following is an outline of Brian Busey's U.S. Airport Finance presentation given at the USAID Conference on Airport Financing in Cairo, Egypt, March 6, 2002.
		airport bonds are classified as private-activity debt when financing directly benefits a specific airline or other private company (e.g.
		airports with sustainable enplanement levels that are not subject to significant competition in service area
	www.mofo.com /news/news/files/article731.html (1444 words)

	Halfbakery: Airport Novel (with Branches!)
		On a side note, the bank HSBC have their ads all along the walkways at a London airport (is it Gatwick?) and although they don't tell a story, the legend is continuous and thematic.
		Lets take it a step further and have novels printed on the ground so we can read them from the airplane as we pass over.
		Also include choices that would lead you into the unused men's in the far corner of the airport with continuing choices on the bathroom walls leading further into the spy thriller.
	www.halfbakery.com /idea/Airport_20Novel_20(with_20Branches!) (716 words)

	Amazon.com: Airport: Books: Arthur Hailey (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		The plot revolves around a beleaguered airport manager juggling a failing marriage and a crisis on location, his arrogant and philandering pilot brother in law, an out of work man teetering over into desperation and how their paths cross on one dangerous night.
		Hailey's Airport strips away the facade of the aviation emporium and gives a little glimpse of the industry.
		Quite a number of issues plagueing airports and airline travel, some of which continue to today, are discussed in great detail with both sides of each arguement dutifully laid out.
	www.amazon.com /Airport-Arthur-Hailey/dp/0425176088 (1414 words)

	Airport art: what is it?
		With millions of visitors scheduled to arrive in Australia for the Sydney Olympics, airport authorities have been turning their minds and the talents of the artistic community, to the delicate business of entertaining and delighting them.
		The airport novel is a cultural artefact so enshrined in the common consciousness of the West, it requires no explanation beyond naming.
		To say airport novel - and it's best said quietly for fear of intellectual ostracism, is sufficient to summon in the listener's imagination the half- kilo heft, the gaudy colours and embossed cover, the gross physical overstatement, the bleeding obviousness, of the object.
	www.abc.net.au /rn/arts/atoday/stories/s153446.htm (764 words)

	sfweekly.com - News - Absolutely Fabulous
		And when other Web-enabled "Ya-Ya" groups began forming all over the country after the novel's 1996 publication, Bordelon, a bright-eyed pixie of a woman, helped found a Bay Area chapter -- the "Zeau Zeau Fleurs," or the "crazy flowers" -- that has become one of the most active and flamboyant in the nation.
		Nevertheless, the novel touches upon some relevant issues facing women today (mother-daughter relationships, friendship among women, and independence vs. the responsibilities of motherhood).
		But the novel and its make-believe mythology have caught on at an astonishing rate, launching a veritable cultural movement of women devoted to a work of fiction (though Wells has publicly admitted that portions of Divine Secrets are semi-autobiographical).
	www.sfweekly.com /issues/2003-01-29/feature_1.html (943 words)

	Boston.com / A&E / Celebrity news / Best-selling novelist Arthur Hailey dies
		Arthur Hailey, author of "Airport," "Hotel" and other novels that became hit movies, has died, his wife said Thursday.
		His first novel, "The Final Diagnosis," was published in 1959 -- about a hospital pathologist who causes an infant's death by mistake.
		Reviewing his 1979 novel "Overload" -- about an energy crisis -- one critic wrote in The Globe and Mail of Toronto: "His lack of literary finesse is overcome by his unerring instinct for a hot subject."
	www.boston.com /ae/celebrity/articles/2004/11/25/best_selling_novelist_arthur_hailey_dies_1101421620?mode=PF (564 words)

	Amazon.com: Airport: Video: George Seaton,Henry Hathaway,Burt Lancaster,Dean Martin,Jean Seberg,Jacqueline ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Set at (what else?) a busy metropolitan airport, it details what happens one eventful night when, among other things, a huge blizzard threatens to disrupt air traffic for the airport manager (Burt Lancaster) even as a suicidal bomber (Van Heflin) heads into the air with mayhem on his mind.
		Airport (1970) picked up ten Academy Award nominations, including best picture, Helen Hayes walked away from it with her second Oscar, and a host of sequels followed in its wake, so obviously it did many things right.
		His brother-in-law pilot Vernon Demerest (Dean Martin) assumes the role of Bakersfield's antagonist, criticizing airport measures for keeping the runways operational and the flights on schedule, especially on nights such as the one in question, when a major snowstorm is wreaking havoc on the ground as well as in the air.
	www.amazon.com /Airport-George-Seaton/dp/630491010X (2910 words)

	RedOrbit - General - Best-Selling Novelist Arthur Hailey Dies
		In the 1968 novel "Airport," for instance, manager Mel Bakersfield faces a crisis when a mad bomber boards a flight.
		His first novel, "The Final Diagnosis," was published in 1959 - about a hospital pathologist who causes an infant's death by mistake.
		Hailey's novels received mixed reviews from critics, who often praised his research but sometimes said his writing slipped into cliches.
	www.redorbit.com /news/display?id=106115 (638 words)

	Creation (Gore Vidal) - book review
		This is the thesis of Creation, a historical novel which geographically spans most of the fifth century civilised world and intellectually engages with an immense range of ideas about the fundamental nature of creation.
		He's also careful to avoid any anachronistic traces of Christianity (although, in contrast with Buddhism and Confucianism, it could be argued that Zoroastrianism pretty much is Christianity), though I found the omission of a meeting with a Jewish religious figure a little surprising.
		There is plenty of historical (and particularly political) interest — poisonings in the Persian harem, the internecine feuds of the Greeks, the warring states of India and China.
	dannyreviews.com /h/Creation.html (288 words)

	ESA Portal - Bat inspires space tech for airport security (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Tadar is being demonstrated at this week's Inter Airport Europe Exhibition in Munich.
		Conventional metal detectors, such as those used to check passengers at airports, are limited in that they can only detect metal objects.
		Other security technologies such as the X-ray imaging used to screen luggage, are unsuitable for checking people because of their use of ionizing radiation.
	www.esa.int /esaCP/SEML1W5Y3EE_index_0.html (980 words)

	molokov_au: It's cold outside, there's no kind of atmosphere
		That is, they're novels you can buy in an airport bookshop so you've got something to read on the plane.
		In general, Crichton novels are somewhat (in the opinion of someone I knew in uni) Luddite-ish, i.e "beware the dangers of technology",
		So essentially, although "State of Fear" is still an airport novel, it's far more thought provoking than Crichton's treatises on genetics (Jurassic Park) or nanotechnology (Prey).
	molokov-au.livejournal.com /1293.html (1217 words)

	Arthur Hailey shuns notion of retirement: 12/02/01
		But with 170 million copies of his novels in print, Hailey has shown that you don't have to write about spies or vampires to enthrall a reader.
		The screenplay later became the 1958 novel "Runway Zero-Eight," by Ronald Payne and John Garrod.
		In 1969, with the royalties of "Hotel" and "Airport" rolling in, the Haileys moved to the Bahamas because the Caribbean islands had no income tax.
	www.s-t.com /daily/12-01/12-02-01/e05li133.htm (1304 words)

	Big Storm Novels
		It's a fairly decent airport novel, plenty to keep you entertained while waiting for your flight to depart.
		You've got a weather researcher who's monitoring it, her former lover Donovan Nash who's got a hidden past and the bright idea of perhaps stopping the storm in its tracks by nuking it.
		A Planet for the President is a political satire novel where the current US president is convinced that life would be a whole lot better if maybe everyone but Americans were wiped out.
	daggle.com /060126-115847.html (866 words)

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