Word: dogs
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...objective of the unique operation is to capture oil and gas from fissures on the ocean floor, helping to rid local beaches of a thick, gooey carpet of tar that washes up daily. Says County Supervisor William Wallace: "If your dog got loose and went down to the beach, it would take you an hour to clean his feet." Still worse, the putrid smell of hydrogen sulfide often hangs over the area like vapor from a truckload of rotten eggs. The culprit is not a leaking oil well, but nature. The ocean floor is spilling large quantities...
Outside the Kensington house is a Britain in social twilight. The sun is setting on this pinchpenny welfare state; what follows is a long night of petty anarchy. Ironies and animosities collide everywhere: on a quiet street, a cat defiantly arches its back at a small dog leashed by its owner, even as the local lads shout, "Go back to Poland!" at the uncomprehending laborers. At an intersection, fenders graze and tempers flare. In a supermarket, a woman in a fur coat filches consumer goods the Poles could neither find nor afford back home. (Her thievery gives Nowak the inspiration...
...conducive to naturalness. Bloomingdale's, that barometer of with-itness, features jeans made of "natural stonewashed denim." Golden Key Creations of Fort Worth urges customers: "Be pure, natural, beautiful with Vitamin E cream!" Breeder's Choice Pet Foods has launched a new line of "all natural" dog food, which is the regular line bereft of additives, and Weleda, Inc., of Spring Valley, N.Y., sells "an all-natural, non-aerosol spray deodorant." Bootstrap Press of Glendale, Calif., offers a book that teaches "the deep natural breathing you were born with...
...world. Inside, life-size models of dinosaurs fight to the death; there is even an erupting volcano with 7,000 gal. of simulated lava and realistic odors that turn each eruption into a smellodrama. The lava is pumped by the same kind of machine that is used to shoot dog food into cans (it could be nicknamed the Alpo Volcano). The Land (sponsor: Kraft) manages to meld a boat tour, environmental subjects (topsoil loss, space-grown plants) and musical cutups by such Audio-Animatronic vegetable performers as the Colander Combo and the Kitchen Krackpots led by a human being, Bonnie...
...apartment is too small. The dog is too large. Michel has just been caught having an affair with a pressagent. And the best job Josepha can get for the moment is in a soft-core porn movie. Well, that's show business, and it is hard to remember a movie that has better caught the flavor of life down at the supporting-player level (where you do your best work in little theaters for audiences of a hundred and your worst work on television for audiences of millions) than Christopher Frank's wise, rueful, often comical little import...