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...Meantime, the permanently disaffected will be found over at the independent channels, gnarled fingers twiddling the dial in hopes of glimpsing Matt Dillon, Chief Ironsides and the rest of that old gang of theirs. On the whole it is a slightly better deal than being placed on an ice floe when your usefulness as a consumer has diminished...
...symbolism is plain enough, as in a well-known picture usually called The Wreck of the "Hope" (circa 1822). Friedrich was inspired, at first, by reports of early expeditions to the North Pole, all of which failed. But the image he produced, with its grinding slabs of travertine-colored floe ice chewing up a wooden ship, goes beyond documentary into allegory: the frail bark of human aspiration crushed by the world's immense and glacial indifference. "The ice in the north must look very different from that," Friedrich Wilhelm III of Prussia is said to have grumped on viewing...
...FLOE HOWARD Franklin, Ohio...
...other Republicans who may well have benefited from the closeness of the election stand at opposite ends of the ideological spectrum and opposite ends of the country: John Lindsay and Ronald Reagan. Mayor Lindsay's future depends largely on his agility in leaping from floe to floe in the sea of troubles surrounding New York City. Ronald Reagan, who was reportedly offered a Cabinet post before the Republican Convention, plans to stay on in California as Governor. So far, his objectives have been largely limited to economizing, but if he hopes to run for re-election...
...Arctic pack ice has only recently started to break in the waters surrounding this Navy research installation. Eight-hundred miles out on the ice, in an area usually populated only by polar bears, seals, and occasional gulls, four British explorers have set up a summer camp on a floe of old ice. They have been traveling for more than four months by dog sled...