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This collection of memories ranges over wartime Washington, the transformation of industries, the families stumbling around in blacked-out houses, the rapt attention paid to H.V. Kaltenborn, the vacations spent on beaches dark with oil from ships sunk off the New Jersey coast by German U-boats. Hoopes found hundreds of nostalgic oddments. One man remembers a lapel button: "It showed Uncle Sam, and when you pulled the string. Uncle Sam pulled Hitler up on a tree limb and hanged him. The slogan was LET'S ALL PULL TOGETHER." A woman asks, "Do you remember punching oleo...
...coaster ride (just about every park claims the ultimate) as there are for the elephant ride or the multimedia screen show or the placid monorail to nowhere. City children will spend hours playing with small animals; other young visitors may take a dozen consecutive gut-wrenching rides or spend rapt hours trailing wandering minstrels. Many TV-age adults see live shows and big-name concerts for the first time-and possibly the last, until their return to a theme park. Notes California Sociologist Jim Dunnivan: "In contrast to the conspicuous consumption of the '50s and early...
There's a scene in Between the Lines, a film about a small, alternative Boston newspaper, in which Max the manic rock critic rambles insanely to a group of rapt college students on the crucial question facing modern civilization...
Other sequences, funny in themselves, seem to come out of nowhere. At one point, Max, exploiting his popularity as a rock critic, lectures a group of rapt girls, who are busily taking notes: "The answer to whither rock is hither. Some people say thither but they're wrong. Their theories are passe." In the film's most outlandish sequence, he engages in a conceptual art battle with a street person, who bangs his fists against a Coke machine, kicks it to the ground and triumphantly labels it "Dead Coke Machine...
Life is simpler for Karajan now. He is a proud and private family man. Leaving the stage after every tumultuous Carnegie ovation, he looked up to the box where his third wife Eliette and their daughters Isabel, 16, and Arabel, 12, stood in rapt admiration...