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Endeavor's mission was part strategy, part science: to observe the astronomical transit of the planet Venus from Tahiti; to map coasts and islands; to collect and classify strange flora and fauna; to search for a naval base for the coming war with the American colonies, Spain and France. Manned and equipped for all this, the little ship resembled the Swiss Family Robinson afloat. It was stuffed to the gunwales with pigs and goats (for eating), cats and parrots (to break the monotony), even a hunting greyhound named Lady who was used to chase down rare specimens of game...
Throwing Temper Tantrums. Here is a Lear with a willful, robber baron strain of not quite legitimate authority. The viewer feels that he has carved out his kingdom just as he proposes to carve up the map of England for his daughters. As a kind of self-made king, he falls into the first of his blindnesses, the idea that he can give away his possessions and his crown and yet retain power in his person alone. Cobb reveals how the fool in Lear is intrinsically a child. This 80-year-old is an eight-year-old in disguise, throwing...
...heart of his operation is a small, windowless office known as "the war room." Its walls are plastered with charts and maps that trace every move by the candidates. One chart focuses on ethnic groups and their numerical strength in 17 pivotal states. One map goes so far as to try to show the location of troubles that have yet to occur. When violence flared briefly at Columbia University last month, Nixon headquarters quickly received intelligence reports that similar disturbances were planned at colleges across the nation. The reports, naturally, went right onto the futures map...
...these tactics are not working. McGovern has put South Dakota on the map, and his efforts in Washington on behalf of his state have firmly entrenched him in the minds of the voters here...
...were on the way to Wembley once in the van. We wrote on a piece of paper 'Which way to Wembley.' We spoke in a foreign language and pointed to map of Wales. Everybody went mad putting us right.... I still feel an urge to do that but you can't. It would be Beatles Play Tricks. This Will Give You a Laugh...