Word: ported
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...most Ozu films. "Tokyo Story" is about the increasing contrasts between old and new Japan. And like all Ozu films, the plot is so plain, despite its variety of psychological and emotional levels, that it can be summarized as an anecdote. An old couple leave their home in the port-town of Shimonoseki their children in Tokyo. But there they are intruders in spite of a fond reception, there is no place for them in their children's homes, and they are sent away to vacation at some hot springs resort. The boisterous carryings-on of young people drive them...
...haul. "I'll be back next week," he said ruefully. Pravda reported long queues at bakeries in Gorky, a major industrial center, while travelers said that in cities as widely scattered as Saratov, Yaroslavl and Kharkov, cereals had been virtually unobtainable for weeks. Northerners from the Barents Sea port of Archangel complained that their rationed potatoes were "not much bigger than peas...
...neighboring observers didn't share Trevor's enthusiasm. "Bush league--get these jerks off!" they shouted as the band dog-trotted through its geometry. The Big Red swelled into a moving rendition of the Cornell alma mater. "Nice," thought Trevor. "Yeecch!" coughed someone behind him, spitting Tawny Port down the back of Trevor's neck...
...States wrote to tell me he had met the couple at a cocktail party, where they proudly boasted that they had made the grand tour round South America wholly on the largesse of gullible vice consuls like me. Their only expense was passage to the first foreign port, where they wangled enough money to get to the next one and so on round the cape and back home. Strandees who expect the Government to foot the whole bill are in effect trying to pass on their misfortunes to the long-suffering taxpayer...
...finally off his crutches. Fraud Farber has been getting in shape by playing a lot of golf in Angola over the summer, and Chuck "Sex-Blind" Daly will bring a lot of devious tricks from the expansion league ball clubs he played on at Hyannis Port and Hickory Hill. But you can't deny destiny Crime...