Word: rafted
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...action is set on a desert containing a tree, a rubber raft, some seashells, two men and a woman. The men and the woman have a number of problems, the main one being that the sea has disappeared. They know that there must be a sea--the presence of the shells can be explained in no other way--and they have built their lives around the expectation of the sea's return...
Died. General Bernard Cyril ("Tiny") Freyberg, 74, New Zealand's hero of two world wars, proud possessor of nine battle wounds and many more decorations (including the Victoria Cross), a bluff, towering New Zealander who swam the Gulf of Saros o Gallipoli in 1915, dragging a raft of lares in a diversionary tactic against the Turks, in World War II led Imperial troops in Libya, bloody Crete and Italy, where he once squelched a U.S. genral's complaint that New Zealanders never saluted with the crack, "Try waving at them and they'll wave back," returned home...
...they block out burning ultraviolet rays from the sun, and they allow true tanning only to the extent that they let those same ultraviolet rays through. Perhaps the most effective sun-screening agent of all is a dark red veterinary petroleum jelly, used during World War II for life-raft survival. Trouble is, the stuff is indeed red (although it loses its color when rubbed on); it is also greasy and smells like...
...historical approach to Bogart is possible this spring because the Brattle has programmed thirteen (count 'em) of the master's movies in one-day shots, guaranteed to ruin any carefully planned study schedule. The interested viewer can follow Bogie from his bit roles in George Raft type gangster films through the "classic" private eye series of the 'Forties to the start of his final ("warning" or "mature," depending on your preference) period...
Many an earnest young writer launching a first novel is like a man trying to raft his belongings across a flooded river. The problem, clearly, is to get the essential items safely over. The temptation is to pile everything on. Paul Brodeur's story nearly founders under its symbolic freight. But the voyage into a world where inner disorder and outer chaos mirror each other makes an absorbing trip...