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Misfires on the Floor. Mrs. Child now lives in Cambridge, Mass., and her TV program is taped in the display kitchen of a local electric company, where she puts in about 19 hours of preparation for each half-hour show. If she is going to flute a mushroom on the air, she has to flute one in rehearsal too. For dishes that take time, she cooks to various stages beforehand, so that she can compress an entire process of, say, four hours, into 30 minutes. By the end of a show about the preparation of one duck, for example, there...
...vodka gimlet but did not like it. She took a sip from the old-fashioned of a newsman at the table with her, made a face and handed it back, finally settling for a cherry cordial. She was not very hungry, and ate little of her filet mignon with mushroom sauce...
...ludicrous. To compare Kubrick with European directors is to denigrate the achievements of both. Kubrick attempts no subtle characterization, and few cinematic tricks. Using, rather than probing, neuroses, he fills his screen with comic stereotypes, all conventionally focused in stark black and white. Except for several shots of mushroom clouds and B-52's, the movie could easily be adapted to the stage...
Suddenly Strangelove freezes and pauses several seconds. Then, leaping from his wheelchair, he stalks toward the open-mouthed President, screaming, "I can walk again! I can walk again!" As the voice fades unevenly, the screen dissolves into a collage of mushroom clouds puffing noiselessly into the sky. Slowly a female voice rises in the background, singing a langorous "We Shall Meet Again." By now the audience has stopped laughing; few remember the short blurb that opened the film: "The U. S. Air Force assures you that what you are to see can never happen...
Clean Clouds. When a crater-making shot is fired, a mushroom of earth grows out of the ground above the explosion. A jet of hot gas raises a dust cloud high in the air. Most of the dust and debris settle immediately, and hardly any dust falls more than 21 miles from the crater. This dust is not very radioactive. Nearly all of the shot's radioactivity is buried deep under the rubble that falls back into the hole. Ploughshare men are sure that if modern, "clean" explosives are used, the radioactivity that escapes will be of little significance...