Word: organisms
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...Predictions: You will regret not going to Stanford. You will build a tumescent human organ out of snow. Playboy will write about it. You will learn that, as a Harvard student, your slightest action could be scrutinized by the national media...
...same rival and lost and won the same woman above the fading velveteen seats of the Majestic Theatre at Pomona (pop. 900), 30 km inland from the Sunshine Coast. And on most of those nights, Ron West has provided the silent movie's voice on his Wurlitzer pipe organ, playing swirly harp sounds when the heroine swoons, shifting to a sinister key when the villain appears, and pulling up short when the hero reins his horse...
...late wife Mandy took over the Majestic in 1974, the old picture palace had long since adapted to the talkie, Technicolor times. Ron, whose father played the oboe in silent-movie orchestras in New Zealand, had been a church organist since his schooldays, when he took up the organ to get out of football. As a hobby, "a plaything that I thought would keep me busy into my retirement," he started restoring the Majestic's decrepit organ, gathering pipes and electrical switches from old theaters and churches as far away as Fiji...
...Sunshine-Coast resort asked if the Wests could screen "something nostalgic" for a coach load of travel agents. They pulled out Son of the Sheik-and had an instant hit. Three months later the theater went all-silent, and the organ (whose pipes "speak" through a vent from a side room) has hardly had a quiet moment since. As well as the Thursday-night show, West runs an annual silent-film festival and puts on extra screenings by request-earlier today, for a group of New Zealand golfers whose game was rained...
...bric-a-brac and sheet music piled for sorting, but "I'll have more down time." That means he'll finally be able to complete his hobby, connecting and tuning the unused pipes that make the theater's storerooms look like a plumber's shed. Then, with luck, the organ will live as long as the Son keeps riding...