Word: basketfuls
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...ferry, a little girl's wicker basket is accidentally knocked overboard by a passenger. Like the owl and the pussycat, she and a young boy go to sea in pursuit, navigating their inflated raft by a primer-simple map of the six continents. When they want to go to the Red Sea it turns out to be red; the Black Sea becomes black. At last they arrive at a place where, the girl complains, "they forgot to color the water." An island rises from the clear waves, and the voyagers suddenly find themselves beached in a magical, adult-free...
...giving the pitchers all the breaks," grouses Henry Aaron. Other batsmen blame their anemic averages on the hardships of coast-to-coast travel, the lengthened big-league schedule, the visual vicissitudes of night baseball, the spacious new ballparks that turn extra-base blasts into long outs, and the bushel-basket-sized gloves used by fielders today. Factors all, but the commanding factor still is a quantum improvement in pitching quality...
Charles G. Bluhdorn, chairman of merger-minded Gulf & Western, explains the rationale behind that current corporate rage-the conglomerate company-in disarmingly simple terms. "If you have all your eggs in one basket, you're stuck with those eggs," says Bluhdorn. "But if you've also got apples and bananas, that's something else." Following that formula, Bluhdorn, James Ling of Ling-Temco-Vought, Harold Geneen of ITT and several others have traced the tracks of such conglomerate pioneers as Litton and Textron across industry lines into movies and machinery, aircraft and auto parts, cigars, cybernetics...
Someone asked how much a book cost. How much did he think it was worth? 75 cents. The money was taken and held out for anyone. "Who wants 75 cents?" A girl who had just walked in came over and took it. A basket labelled 'free money...
...human condition by making things go from worse to merely bad. Thus the film opens with a closeup of the hero's head in a coffin. The camera moves back to show that there is no body attached. Hands lift the head, and place it in a basket, from which it leaps upward to a guillotine where it attaches itself to a body, which takes a last look at the world and a final drag on a cigarette...