Word: chipmunk
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...should see them scramble. It's like fighting for a deck chair on the Titanic." ∙∙∙ As it circled lightly over the R.A.F. field at Bassingbourn, the tiny, single-engine trainer looked dwarfed by the huge jet bombers at the base. But the bright red Chipmunk craft nonchalantly settled to a perfect landing and taxied over to a hangar. There, a crowd of R.A.F. officers raised a cheer. Out of the plane stepped Britain's Prince Charles, flashing a broad grin. After 14 hours of instruction, the 20-year-old heir to the throne had logged...
Violence for Peace. It is not so much what Bird says but who he is when he says it. To polish his metallic-voiced, dandruff-flecked,chipmunk-cheeked impersonation of Harold Wilson, he spends hours studying the Prime Minister's "Brechtian performances" on TV, which he likens to "a political guerrilla fight: always backing off, always in retreat, but always seeming to attack...
Britt Ekland is a bland Julie Christie. At least Miss Christie is slightly knockneed and her eyes don't water at the sight of a chipmunk. I suppose Miss Ekland--along with automobiles and orgy rooms equipped with Louis Quinze furnishings and electric gimmicks--excites somebody. There on-screen is the fulfillment of somebody's fantasies...
...extraordinary detail of his men's day-to-day existence. In the heavy air, laden with double the normal amount of oxygen, cuts and abrasions heal overnight. Beards almost stop growing. In the 86-ft. Deep Cabin, the male larynx, in reaction to helium, produces shrill chipmunk sounds. The men listen to music, keep house, play chess, pamper a parrot, and begin to feel strangely detached from events in the surface world. Jewel-bright sea creatures hover outside the glass windows, coolly observing behavior in the manfish bowl. When divers venture into the abysmal blue depths to explore, they...
Professor is a manic switcheroo on the Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde theme. Kelp, with his chipmunk teeth, soup-bowl haircut, horn-rimmed half glasses and Neanderthal lope, is fed up with himself. One night in his laboratory he stirs up and quaffs a concoction that will make him strong, handsome and irresistible to women-for what woman could resist a sun-lamp tan, a Shinola coiffure, a high-roll shirt collar, and an electric blue suit with black lapels? Thus decked out, God's gift to coeds invades the Purple Pit (a Paramount updating of the old campus...