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...movie, the fictional events range from suspense (Who is the Nazi spy posing as an American prisoner in Barracks 4?) to out & out slapstick (P.W.s making schnapps out of potato peelings and string, washing socks in a pot of watery soup, lining up at a homemade telescope to gawk at Russian women prisoners taking delousing showers...
...arrivals are herded into a former British army camp renamed Shaar Aliyah (Gate of Immigration), for two weeks or so of medical isolation. The heterogeneous immigrants stroll aimlessly: a gangling youth in a heavy blue ski suit that was fine for the weather he knew in Rumania will gawk at shriveled, turbaned old men clad in the pajama suits of North African Arabs; chattering old ladies from Hungary, clutching fur scarves, look incredulously on squatting North African women in long cotton shifts...
...pure and harmless pleasures of the brush and easel. Last week 228 of them were discovering the prouder joys of exhibition. The winners of a nationwide contest sponsored by Art News magazine, they had had their works hung in Manhattan's Riverside Museum for all the world to gawk and snicker...
...emerging from Tom Breneman's restaurant with a wide Rooseveltian grin on his face. Inside, Jimmy had just made a broadcast announcing that he would run for governor of California. His studio audience surged out behind him, still munching their free ice cream cones, and gathered around to gawk at the show. On the sidewalk a three-piece band struck up Happy Days Are Here Again, a tumbling team cavorted and square dancers twirled in the rosy glow of neon signs. In the midst of it all stood Jimmy, bald, tall and toothpick thin, bending low to pump...
Small-boy admirers of Manhattan's American Museum of Natural History sometimes call it "the dead zoo." Parents, too, gape and gawk at the floodlit glass cases which the museum describes as its "natural habitat groups." In the shadowy "North American Mammals" wing are windows overlooking a family of grizzly bears dining on ants in Yellowstone National Park, wolves loping after a deer by the glow of northern lights, bull moose fighting in a marsh, and Rocky Mountain goats scrambling sky-high along a cliff...