Word: corneres
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...movie that's fun. Fun! A strange-sounding word. Without sex, nudity or violence? Maybe we have turned the corner from rabid realism to creative, fantastic entertainment...
That was time enough. While the diversions went on, seven prisoners were making a dash for another section of the wall at the northern corner of the yard (see diagram). As usual during routine operations, the tower nearest to it was unmanned. The men erected a makeshift ladder crudely fashioned out of iron water pipes stolen from the prison's plumbing. Frantically, the men scrambled up the ladder and wiggled under the 2,300-volt electrified barbed wire that ran 18 in. above the top. At about that moment, all of the phones inexplicably went dead in the prison...
...pictures on the oval walls are from Ford's time, most of the furniture too. Carter did resurrect Kennedy's desk, but its top is thinly populated. The Bible on which Carter placed his hand when he took the oath rests on one corner. Harry Truman's THE BUCK STOPS HERE sign stands beside a kicking glass donkey that was a present from Georgia Democrats. Near by is Admiral Rickover's memento: "Oh, God, thy sea is so great and my boat is so small." They are stage props. The man lives elsewhere, perhaps down...
Quincy House residents petitioned the Cambridge post office for the return of a mailbox on the corner of Plympton and Mt. Auburn Sts., but the post office said it was an unlikely prospect because drunken students kept moving the mailbox, confusing mailmen when they came to empty...
...lover's roommate is deaf and dumb-then, after the roommate is dead, by pretending that he is still there. Jacob (movingly played by Czechoslovak Actor Vlastimil Brodsky) has no choice but to indulge the illusions of his adopted niece, who is entranced when he slips around a corner and mimics a radio broadcast, complete with an interview with Winston Churchill. At the end, when she and Jacob are deported to a camp, he says nothing to dampen her uncomprehending glee at taking a trip...