Word: pondful
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...nearly always saved by an inspired stroke of slapstick, a device wielded with mighty effect by Gert Frobe as Germany's Colonel von Holstein. Frobe faces his French foe (Jean-Pierre Cassel) in a mad duel fought with blunderbusses from a pair of balloons bobbing above a drainage pond. The major casualty is Sordi, whose test flight propels him into their line of fire. Later, when Frobe attempts the channel, flying quite literally by the book, he somehow finds himself suspended at low altitude, treading water. This feat is matched by Terry-Thomas maladroit landing atop an express train...
SALLY: It was so beautiful--the twilight walks by the Charles, hand in hand; the Wednesday night dinners by candle light; the early morning bicycle rides around Fresh Pond...
...oscillating dynamism take hold of the picture. The white lines wiggle and the bounding stripes continuously exchange roles with the bounded stripes. The repetition of trapezoids becomes mesmerizing and the number of rings becomes an important factor in the painting. The fascination is like ripples in a pond. And like movement in nature, the movement in Stella's best (blatently denatured) pictures encourage contemplation...
Playing the seventh hole yesterday, Mashie Campen was forced to hit a shot with his right leg knee-deep in a pond. "But by then," Campen recalled, "I didn't even notice...
...went to plant trees as part of a barricade against the fierce winds of North China, helped the people in a nearby village clear their fields of corn stalks, and finally spent a week in a commune, helping farmers dig a reservoir that would double as a fish-breeding pond...