As a result, the ride became known as Nighthawk.
Firehawk may not have been the first Flying Dutchman model from Vekoma, a title that belongs to Nighthawk at Carowinds, but it was billed as the Midwest's first and only flying roller coaster when it opened in 2001.
The Whitney redresses that in a new survey, drawn from its extensive collection, which also includes such indelible canvases as "Nighthawks," "New York Movie," and "Office at Night".
Kidde's model, called the Nighthawk, priced at $35, emits a piercing 85-decibel alarm when activated and also alerts homeowners to the source of the problem by announcing either "Fire" or "Warning!
Tapping into this market, VHS nights are being programmed at a handful of theaters across the country, including Cinefamily in Los Angeles; the Alamo Drafthouse in Austin, Tex.; and, in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, at the Spectacle Theater and Nighthawk Cinema (where films are sometimes projected via VCR).
The rest of the show concentrates on songs from the '70s and '80s and begins with two pieces from Mr. Waits's 1975 live album, "Nighthawks at the Diner".
When he assembled the current "herd," as he calls it, of Nighthawks, at the end of 1998, he hadn't had a band together in four years.
An erupting wellspring of euphoria: that would describe the vintage swing emanating from Vince Giordano and the Nighthawks at the 92nd Street Y during Saturday evening's season-opening program of Lyrics & Lyricists.
His discovery of the Beat writers came as a breath of fresh air and furnished a strong stylistic impulse that surfaced recently on Nighthawks at the Diner, his third Asylum album.
At its most ridiculous, one has only to conjure a musical corollary to the posters featuring images of Marilyn Monroe, Humphrey Bogart and James Dean interpolated into well-known paintings like Edward Hopper's "Nighthawks at the Diner" or da Vinci's "Last Supper" to imagine what future "duets" might entail.
