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Resourceful as ever, PEtty and the redoubtlable Roger decide they will have to make do with what they have. We find Roger consucting military exercises and falling into the duck pond. Roger patrolling the yard falling into the duck pond, Roger ezperimenting with do-it-yourself bean can bombs and falling into the duck pond. One of their better ideas is to convert a microwave oven into a missile deflector. Unfortunately, this piece of genius is ultimately stymied by Roger's lack of techincal expertise...
...days after the fall of Green Hill, Sihanouk, who nominally heads a tripartite coalition of guerrilla groups including the Communist Khmer Rouge, arrived at the Nong Bua (Lotus Pond) Temple in the Thai town of Surin for the cremation of one of his generals killed during the campaign. The Prince greeted his followers and conferred quietly with the general's widow. "The Vietnamese victory appears to be very impressive," he later conceded. "They have attacked all of the resistance bases. But the truth is that the coalition forces are far from dead. We have lost our biggest stronghold...
...Temporarily down to a solitary goaltender, awaiting a replacement from the minor leagues, they have recruited an Edmonton policeman, Floyd Whitney, for a practice session. "You're the target today, eh?" one of the stubbly giants greets Whitney reassuringly, as the Stanley Cup champions slide sleepily onto their indoor pond. Despite a proliferation of Europeans, hockey players still tend to be white, toothless Canadians from small, picturesque places, who skated to grammar school on iced-over footpaths until diverted during high school to the big city, where they enjoy drinking beer and occasionally throwing each other through plate glass windows...
...where Mike Nichols and Elaine May first scored their sharp points. Just as the Compass had been, Second City was to be a showcase for performers whose native wit had been quickened by training in the methods of improvisation. Before long, it had gained a reputation as a small pond that spawned big fish, and as veterans took off for Broadway or Hollywood, eager newcomers arrived to take their places. "Everyone will tell you we all loved one another," snorts Rivers, who arrived in the early '60s. "But when the rundown for the night's show was posted, people would...
...home of Aunt Mona, the late husband's sister. Stunned by her losses and longing for the old days "before everybody started dying," Justin mopes and takes solitary bike rides through this alien Yankee territory. On one such foray, she discovers a tumbledown hut by the side of a pond and decides to investigate. When she sees a woman inside, lying on a blanket and reading a book, Justin screams...