Word: dis
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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This time Hickey has changed. He is off the booze and wants to save the in mates of the cafe with a gospel of dis illusionment. They are to test their pipe dreams in the outer world and come to uncompromising terms with themselves...
...Athens, a city where "everybody knows everybody else," almost everybody has heard of Brigadier General Dimitrios loannidis (pronounced Ee-o-ahn-ee-dis). A spectral, Beria-like figure who commands Greece's military police force-the feared ESA-loannidis was not seen by the public even at the swearing-in ceremony of Phaedon Gizikis, the colorless army general who is Greece's new President. He did not really have to, since it is loannidis and not Gizikis who runs the junta...
...firm scientific evidence exists to prove or dis prove pyramid power. Laymen who experiment may be frustrated because precision is required. Pyramids must be aligned precisely on magnetic north. Being close to windows, radiators, fluorescent lights, radios, TV sets and other appliances can queer the effect. Says McLuhan somewhat pessimistically: "If you do all that, it may or may not work. If you don't, it certainly won't work...
...abstract and opaque. Yet at times it is brutally beautiful, lavishly choreographed - a pagan ritual in evening dress. The script, which has some vague relation to Bram Stoker's novel Dracula, concerns the exploits of a university student named Jonathan who is dis patched by his professor to scout a prospective raid on a vampire fortress...
...simply that he has flown his pigeonhole. He is also, probably, less interesting because he has stopped doing what he was good at and is now spending his time doing what he is not so hot at (fixing up his country place, "pursuing" what Hills calls with dis taste, "interests," or making his spongy body perform whatever sports are still possible...