Word: bus
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Costa Rica, a handful of the 40,000-odd Nicaraguan fugitives from the dictatorship of General Anastasio Somoza decided to go home to make a revolution. Led by General Alfredo Noguera Gomez, they set out for Nicaragua in a 30-passenger bus...
...Mexico City, it was announced that the storm had broken the oil pipeline from Tampico in four places. That meant further gasoline restriction. As people queued up to use Mexico City's crippled bus service (there were already block-long queues for kerosene, charcoal, corn), nervous politicos held their breath, wondered if the storm had dealt the country's groggy economic system a knockout punch...
Last week Bus Miller was back in the U.S. to become the blushing recipient of two more medals: gold stars in lieu of a fourth Distinguished Flying Cross, and a fourth Air Medal. Miller now wears ten decorations. His new assignment: a training job in San Diego. His one object in life is "to get this damn war over and get home to my children." He has five in Jacksonville...
...course of convincing him that she loves him for himself alone, she leads Mr. Hall through some unusually footloose footage. She gets him ensnarled in a brawl in a low-life barbershop which specializes in reconditioning shiners. She goads a Job-like bus driver (Buster Keaton) into leaving his dreary route for a gently berserk tour of the moonlit seashore. She takes Hall to San Diego's Zoo where, with very sensible leisure, the camera forgets all about the plot to watch a couple of engaging bears, hindfeet clasped in paws, rock back & forth on their bottoms...
...four barbaric little brothers and from several expert comics, old & new. Irene Ryan, a virtual newcomer, does a cute, keen-edged little job as a room-seeking spinster who lands in the wrong house. Buster Keaton, one of the greatest of the silent clowns, gives the world-worn bus driver an aplomb, a strangeness, a depth of sadness, which all but turn the picture from its casual, slap-happy course into something far more impressive...