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Initially, there had been hopes that the fare increases, which are still subject to approval by the U.S. Civil Aeronautics Board and foreign regulatory agencies, would be accompanied by a simplification of the crazy-quilt system of airline rates that now leaves passengers and travel agents alike confused. On the North Atlantic routes, there is a total of nine different lATA-approved rates, ranging from the standard first-class and economy tariffs through excursion fares to group-and age-related reduced rates. Those fares do not include the various charter deals now offered by many of the airlines and travel...
While perplexing, the crazy quilt can sometimes mean good travel bargains, provided the passenger and travel clerks can figure out the best rate. A ticket bought two months in advance under one scheme enables a traveler to fly from New York to Paris and then return to New York from Madrid for only $338, v. $658 standard economy fare...
Margot Crosman's "Half-Drawn" comes closer than the other pieces to the idiom of the theater. "Half-Drawn" begins with four near-nude women in a room. Three don party shoes and climb under a big quilt; the fourth dresses herself in a long black sheath and black gloves, then opens the door for a man in a tux. No more said...
...success in 2001 seems to have convinced him that playing the camera lovingly over a tableaux while playing highbrow music on the soundtrack is a substitute for thought and action. Kubrick's sets are at first startling--the lush green beauty of Irish hills and loughs; the crazy-quilt pattern of farmland in the Low Countries; the grounds of an eighteenth-century country house; the glittering interiors of the courts of Central Europe. But the cinematography stays on a travelogue level. Kubrick does nothing to the superb natural scenery to create images; unwilling to create, he simply records...
...nine inhabited islands of the Azores archipelago (pop. 300,000) look like a setting for a Graham Greene novel. Sheer rocky cliffs drop abruptly to the Atlantic, while the lush, subtropical countryside spreads out in a crazy quilt of farm plots separated by rock fences. Late each day, young and old alike gather under plane trees in the colorful town squares to catch a little relief from the heat and oppressive humidity, and to talk...