Word: connect
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...dour Kings of the Road. Wenders' people are preoccupied with their own rootlessness. In Tanner's mirthless Swiss political comedy everyone is one variety or another of Boho Marxist. In Kings of the Road, the hero, Bruno, and his sidekick, Robert, are only sporadically looking to connect. For the most part, they have engineered a working arrangement with hopelessness. They ride from one small, shabby West German town to another, while Bruno repairs equipment in dilapidated movie theaters. The musty dream palaces have turned into mausoleums with chewing gum on the seats...
...lives are rocked by a pair of extraordinary events that aren't supposed to happen to followers of the middle-class rule book. Here is a struggle between people trying to come to terms with emotions and occurrences they cannot control or justify, that polarize as well as irretrievably connect...
...rather than exuberant-are the motifs of this book. At the age of 17, Sevareid and a high school friend traveled the 2,200 miles from the Mississippi River to Hudson's Bay in a secondhand 18-ft. canoe to prove that two red-blooded American boys could connect the waters of the Gulf of Mex ico to the North Atlantic. As Sevareid remembered it 15 years later, the expedition was "sheer, concentrated misery." For years afterward, "a visit to the woods produced a moment of nausea...
...Midlands of England, Josiah Wedgwood wanted a canal to connect the Trent and Mersey rivers. So he pushed the necessary legislation through Parliament, contributed £1,000 to the cost of the project, and devoted more than ten years to getting it finished. It will open next year, a 93-mile marvel that extends through 75 locks and will reduce transportation costs from 10 pence a ton-mile to 1½ pence...
...dissected male and female rays to analyze "the peculiar organs by which that animal produces so extraordinary an effect." The two organs, on either side of the cranium and gills, are about 5 inches long and consist of more than 400 tiny vertical columns of fluid. Three large nerves connect the organs to the brain. Although Hunter is not sure how the shocks are created, he asserts that "the will of the animal does absolutely control the electric powers of its body...