Word: jackdaws
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Like many a senior citizen, Nikita Khrushchev was puzzled about what to do with his time. He tried photography, shooting the countryside around his dacha, outside Moscow. Then he tried teaching a jackdaw to talk. Now he has zeroed in on another hobby: hydroponics, the science of growing plants without soil, using pebbles and nutrient-loaded water. He has marked off some pebbled lots, built a system of pipes, and is growing tomatoes with a vengeance...
...very U deb (Lynn Redgrave), he is about to meet her very pukka sahib army colonel father (Peter Bull). Also expected is a millionaire art fancier with a notorious avidity for avant-garde junk. To impress the guests, Crawford and Redgrave have carted off the sculptor's jackdaw furniture and replaced it with elegant antiques "borrowed" from the neighboring apartment of an exquisitely gay bachelor (Donald Madden) supposedly away for the weekend...
Imagining one's self at great events such as the Battle of Trafalgar has always been a way to make history memorable-but imaginations often need more help than ordinary textbooks provide. So a clever Britisher has turned from books to kits: his Jackdaw No. I, dealing with Trafalgar, makes a child feel as if the Admiralty had bequeathed him Lord Nelson's personal files...
...Jackdaw No. I comes in an envelope the size of a legal pad. It has words: eight close-printed pages describing everything from Nelson's birth in a Norfolk parsonage to his burial in St. Paul's. And to go with the words are eleven graphic exhibits-a map, a battle plan, paintings and a detailed cutaway drawing of Nelson's flagship Victory, plus facsimiles of a crucial Nelson memorandum of the London Times of Nov. 7, 1805, and of ten signal flags by which Nelson told his fleet in code, ENGLAND EXPECTS EVERY...
...scenes in Norfolk are done with loving verity-and needs a job. So he gets one shooting alligators for the city. This keeps him in beer, and more he does not need. He sleeps in the bathtub of a West Side apartment belonging to the Whole Sick Crew, a jackdaw's collection of oddballs and endalls...