Word: desertion
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...half-dozen other, simultaneous, images. Up left, an exterior shot of Las Vegas' International Hotel. By day, a pretty dull affair, not to be compared with Caesar's or the Sands. But by night! ELVIS. In mile-high neon. As if the very stars had fallen from the desert sky, the guts wrenched out of the moon; all so that some mad manipulator of electric gases could spell out ELVIS-COMIN AUGUST...
...COLUMN of flame: Vegas is the most unbelievable of cities. From the air, the solemn, silent desert appears to have split a wayward seam, spewing forth a hidden cache of tawdry jewels. Bingo, Nevada style...
...fade out in the kitchen when Spencer Tracy calls her "unfeminine" because she can't cook; Bette Davis' surrender to Henry Fonda in Jezebel which, according to the program notes, is "an object of contempt to feminists rivaled only by Marlene Dietrich's trudge into the desert in Morocco...
...with the orderly behavior of the planets in the heavens, Galileo, and the scientists who followed him, says Mumford, assumed that life on earth could be reduced to neat, predictable patterns. With his customary prophetic fervor, Mumford accuses Galileo of "driving man out of living nature into a cosmic desert even more peremptorily than Jehovah drove Adam and Eve out of the Garden of Eden...
...government-owned company that is increasing its work force from 12,000 to 20,000 people. Eventually the output is to be doubled. Other factories meanwhile have begun turning out Israeli tanks. So far, the most successful of these has been a hybrid that can operate in both desert and mountains. It mates the low silhouette and turret design of the Russian T-54 (Israel captured nearly 400 of them in the Six-Day War) with the periscope, stabilizers and range finders of the British Centurion and the transmission and engine of the U.S. Patton tank. Another Israeli tank...