Word: pole
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...EMPEROR OF THE NORTH POLE...
...tighten your belt, turn up your collar," the veteran hobo tells the kid, "and you can be emperor of the North Pole." The kid, called Cigaret (Keith Carradine), is a blowhard spoiling to be top bum in the territory. He keeps pestering "A No.1" (Lee Marvin) for some tutoring on the fine points of jumping trains and dodging conductors.A No. 1 tosses a few nuggets of road wisdom to his would-be protégé, but saves his energies and talents for his epic battle with the sadistic conductor Shack (Ernest Borgnine), toughest train man on the tracks...
...strength and will between two scruffy cliches. Aldrich handles the violence of the story with the gusto of a born brawler piling into another fray. His best films (Kiss Me Deadly, Attack) have always shared a quality of almost surrealistic brutality. Since much of The Emperor of the North Pole has to do with great quantities of physical pain being meted out or endured, Aldrich makes the action grimly, jarringly exciting...
...third, untested device: the so-called "parasol" canopy. One reason: the astronauts would not have to leave Skylab to put it in place. Resembling a beach umbrella, the canopy is made up of a 22-by-24-ft. sheet of aluminized Mylar and nylon attached to a long pole consisting of seven 4-ft. sections. An astronaut could extend the pole and sheet out of a small airlock in the middle of the Orbital Workshop's exposed area. Springs in the umbrella's "spokes" would automatically snap the covering into a rigid rectangle that could be positioned close...
Kleiger's record-shattering win in the pole vault was unquestionably the top Harvard performance of the meet, but John Quirk almost won himself a share of the limelight with a second place in the mile. Quirk ran a fast 4:04.4, edging out Villanova junior Brian McElroy at the wire to take second behind Manhattan's Tony Colon. Colon finished one second ahead of Quirk...