Word: mapped
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...afternoon turns cold, Neddy tires, and beyond the difficult portage of Route 424 he begins to see odd un-familiarities that are not on his mental map. The lawns of friends are weed-grown; for-sale signs appear. There is another pool party, but the hostess, who is a social inferior, snubs him. Someone offers a word of sympathy for Neddy's financial troubles, and Neddy, vaguely uneasy, cannot recall that he has any. Chilled, and more tired than seems reasonable, he doggedly swims the last leg of his trip and hurries home to his wife and four tennis...
...shortage in clasroom space this year, a new employment policy, and the closing of the Widener Map Room have brought hordes of Cliffies and Harvard wives into the College's last all-male sanctuary...
...these and several other scenes, Director Sidney Lumet rises vigorously to the dread occasion. Item: the large animated map, on which enormous aerial battles are imagined in diagram and followed as they flow, is a magnificent narrative conceit. But during the last half of the film the illusion of reality slowly collapses into a steaming mess of socio-political platitudes ("In a nuclear war, everybody loses"). If Dr. Strangelove, as some think, made a serious subject silly, Fail Safe too often makes a serious subject soggy. The customers begin to yawn and then to smile. Indeed, in the final scene...
...book he was reading. The bullet missed. Said Marina to the Warren Commission: "When he came back, I asked him what had happened. He was very pale. He only told me he had shot at General Walker." Moreover, in Oswald's effects after the Kennedy assassination, officials found a map of Walker's neighborhood and three photographs?two showing the rear of Walker's home, the other an entrance to his driveway from a back alley...
...Moscow, Communist China's Mao Tse-tung is nothing more than a Red Hitler in search of Lebensraum. In a blistering editorial, Pravda pointed out that Peking had published a history textbook containing a map that showed China's frontiers as including parts of the Soviet far east-the Maritime Krai, Vladivostok and Sakhalin; a large part of Khabarovsk Krai and Amur Oblast; parts of Kirgizia, Tadzhikistan and Kazakhstan as far west as Lake Balk hash. This reinterpretation of geography would in effect push the Chinese border as much as 300 miles into the Soviet Union (see map...