In Popular Culture
The Bush is featured in the Dale Brown novel Executive Intent, where two F/A-18 pilots perform a stunt on an inbound Chinese carrier aircraft in the South China Sea and in turn causes the Chinese fighter to fall into a flat spin and launch a hypersonic cruise missile at the Bush. The missile is shot down by the Phalanx CIWS system, but the high-explosive warhead causes massive damage on the ship. The real ship is not actually equipped with the Phalanx system.
Read more about this topic: USS George H.W. Bush (CVN-77)
Famous quotes containing the words popular culture, popular and/or culture:
“Popular culture entered my life as Shirley Temple, who was exactly my age and wrote a letter in the newspapers telling how her mother fixed spinach for her, with lots of butter.... I was impressed by Shirley Temple as a little girl my age who had power: she could write a piece for the newspapers and have it printed in her own handwriting.”
—Adrienne Rich (b. 1929)
“If our entertainment culture seems debased and unsatisfying, the hope is that our children will create something of greater worth. But it is as if we expect them to create out of nothing, like God, for the encouragement of creativity is in the popular mind, opposed to instruction. There is little sense that creativity must grow out of tradition, even when it is critical of that tradition, and children are scarcely being given the materials on which their creativity could work”
—C. John Sommerville (20th century)
“Insolent youth rides, now, in the whirlwind. For those modern iconoclasts who are without culture possess, apparently, all the courage.”
—Ellen Glasgow (1873–1945)