Word: adds
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Rockland, Me., Kuralt went out on a fishing boat and reported: "From Calais down to Kittery, the lobstermen agree: Maine lobsters are, as they say Down East, 'scarcing up.' " The report ended with Kuralt seated before a shore dinner: "We should add, reassuringly, that the lobster has not vanished, though this one is about to. Maine lobsters are more elusive than ever, but just as tasty as ever when consumed with drawn butter on an expense account...
...each of the "ride-bys"-the good guys chasing the bad guys-run on for an extra 20 seconds or so. Says one TV writer: "The civil rights movement has saved us temporarily. What we do now is drag out one of the old plots and add a new sociological dimension by casting a Negro in a lead role...
What keeps a man and his soap apart for so long? Bad but heavily significant puns. Long scatological accounts of constipation that add up to a plain case of logorrhea. Recurring signs and symbols planted like a Freudian scavenger hunt. Above all, the metaphysical pseudo-Joycean rhetoric of a sometime poet, sometime screenwriter from Hollywood ("The mind is a revolving snowflake out of the backblackward...
Several of the five took offense at what they regarded as Goldberg's attack on their word. "I'm not on trial," Councillor Thomas W. Danehy replied. Mahoney then had the memorandum read into the record and instructed the city clerk to add the five names...
Though the interview with the American flyer was interesting, there are other digressions which drag. Greene's interviews with North Vietnamese officials add little. Greene's would have done better to stick to his theme of the effects of the war on daily life, rather than wasting time shooting interviews with Hanoi official-dom. Other baldly ideological sequences pall, such as scenes of marching North Vietnamese soldiers (there is "no conscription" in North Vietnam, maintains Greene) striding forward to the tunes of the Liberation Hymn of South Vietnam...