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...main strip, horns blaring, buge flags being waved out of windows. Women waved ecstatically from the sunroofs of cars while their boyfriends drove, looting the horn. Amid the cacophony of sound and motion girls would occasionally drop their flags in their enthusiasm and appeal to standers by to fetch it for thew and turn return it to the moving car Men on the street would usually oblige, but office only for the reward of a kiss...
...robot's name is BOB (Brains On Board). At present it cannot even fetch a beer from the refrigerator, but its buoyant creator, High-Tech Millionaire Nolan Bushnell, 40, forsees an almost boundless future for the $2,500 machine. Concerned about crime in your neighborhood? Not to worry, "Home security," says Bushnell, "is just moments away." With the proper software, he claims, BOB could patrol a house and call the police when its heat sensor sniffs an intruder. When BOB isn't watching the house, he could be cleaning it. "As soon...
...audience, fooling no one. Laura moves in, finally. They cook his favorite dessert, dance to gramophone schlock, buy a bird-feeder. The shortness of domestic bliss keeps it from over-sweetening the movie, as Laura soon finds herself stifled by Charles' passion and jealousy. There are absurd attempts to fetch her back from Ox and his daughter, mostly culminating in physical removal. It is obvious that the romance, as all romance in Chilly Scenes, was at best a respite rather than a rescue from the loneliness and unglamorous desperation of day-to-day existence...
Such is the utterly subjective nature of home that the very word must fetch up a distinct and unique image and sensibility in every person. And indeed home can be many things: a house, a town, a neighborhood, a state, a country, a room. Home can be wherever one feels at home, and even a scrap of a place can mobilize that homey feeling. The old standard Autumn in New York plausibly evokes a person looking down on the metropolis from the 27th floor of a hotel to find that the "glittering crowds and shimmering clouds in canyons of steel...
...some of the land for $95 per acre, are interested in buying "if the price is right." Harold Holz, who manages the land for the Uniroyal Corp. under a federal contract, says that the grazing land is worth around $1,500 per acre, while the more fertile land may fetch as much as $2,400 an acre. Potential bidders need not worry about the tons of explosives stored elsewhere on arsenal property; the nearest are more than half a mile away...