Word: journey
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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BULLITT. A violent journey into the underworld, where the crook is a savage and the cop a man alone. Steve McQueen provides a supercool performance as a San Francisco police lieutenant...
Former Harvard halfback great, Bobby Leo, one of the coordinators of the rally, said the band will start its journey to Widener from Dillon Field House at the end of the varsity practice and wend its way through the Houses picking up support at every nook and crannie where potential fans might be huddled...
There are some good things about the book, including some very clever word-play, like the story which ends, "My last words will be my last words," and two of the pieces are good in themselves--"Night-Sea Journey," and the title piece "Lost in the Funhouse...
...Night-Sea Journey" is a monologue of a spermatazoa on its way to the ovum. It is amusing, and, unlike the other stories, is about love, however abstractly that compact may be presented. There is, though, a basic flaw in the piece: In fantastic literature, the author is allowed to make any conditions he likes, but once these are established, the action must be within their limits. The reader will allow Barth to allow a spermatazoa to meditate, but he cannot allow that spermatazoa to record theories about his purpose (correct in every detail)--which theories no spermatazoa could ever...
...LAST: a show designed expressly for stoned-out-of-their-mind couples trapped somewhere in the vast limbo which divides Soldiers Field from bed. He who hopes to make that slow journey, be it this weekend or next, may bank on a square deal from the folks over at Agassiz. Nothing quicker than the eye, no muted colors figurative or literal, no nuances at all will greet the man who puts his trust in Grant-in-Aid and has the sense to do it soon...