Word: bombings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...GAME. A short (47 min.), grainy, neorealistic film about what would happen if the Bomb were dropped on England...
...Game, Suppose the Bomb were dropped on England. Who would survive? What would daily life be like? Would the living envy the dead...
Focusing on a handful of ordinary citizens in Kent, this 47-minute film begins with coolly British preparations for a conventional war-rational rationing, orderly evacuation to the safe suburbs. Abruptly, a nuclear bomb explodes off-camera. The screen whitens with the flash, then rumbles with the shock wave. The sound, intones an off-screen narrator, is "like an enormous door slamming in hell." Children with seared eyes grope for help, fires rage incessantly, food riots begin. The police execute looters-and then turn on the hopelessly ill, shooting them down like horses as they writhe outside the hospital that...
...Solar Bomb will go to the post only for reasons of misplaced nostalgia. Last year his stablemate Kauai King, who won the Derby and the Preakness, tried for the crown in the Belmont and finished fourth. That is a lot better than Solar Bomb will do tomorrow. The time has come to keep the faith...
...Belmont Finish 1. Damascus 2. Cool Reception (longshot special) 3. Proud Clarion 4. Reason to Hail 5. Gaylord's Feather 6. Blasting Charge 7. Proviso 8. Nehoc's Bullet 9. Solar Bomb...