Word: interruption
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...opposite of. aesthetic, Bergman's talents seem much better after leaving the theatre. Once settled in his favorite coffee shop, the new critic will have fun exploring the film's cornucopian symbolism. Two sisters, Ester (Ingrid Thulin) and Anna (Gunnel Lindbloom), and Anna's little boy, Johan (Jorgen Lindstrom), interrupt their railroad trip in a strange country where a strange language is spoken, because of Ester's strange coughing fits. They rent a room in a hotel with long corridors and no other guests (except for the midgets...
During the International Quiet Sun Year (1964-65), U.S. physicists will concentrate 40% of Antarctica's $7,000,000 scientific budget on studies of the upper atmosphere to learn more about cosmic rays and magnetic phenomena that interrupt radio communications. In the past year, other experts have slogged thousands of miles to map the uncharted wasteland, dived deep below the ice to study the metabolism of seals. They have located the world's southernmost volcano, analyzed bacteria left by explorers 50 years ago (the tinned food and biscuits left by Captain Robert Scott...
...Senator Goldwater's reactionary plans [Nov. 8], if carried out, would interrupt the natural growth of the American Tree of State. Instead of merely trimming the tree at its edges as the true conservative would do, or grafting on new branches as the liberal would do, Senator Goldwater would tear the tree out by its roots, leaving not the idyllic green pasture of Jeffersonian democracy but the torn black earth of destruction...
...Atlanta, Ga., last June a white minister who tried to enter a segregated church in company with two Negroes was tried under a 112-year-old state law declaring it a misdemeanor to interrupt "in any manner a congregation lawfully assembled for divine worship." He was fined $1,000 and sentenced to a year in prison, plus an extra six months of labor at "public works" after his prison term...
...humor isn't always subtle, at least it makes you laugh. Grand Fenwick's prime minister, delivering a fireside chat, destroys his country's television network by sticking his finger through the camera. When the rocket is about to be launched, the Fenwickians interrupt the countdown at four for tea. And so on for an hour and a half. Terry-Thomas, Ron Moody, Roddy McMillan and half a dozen others help Miss Rutherford make Mouse on the Moon a delightful escape...