Word: ridings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Ride with Aunt Effie. That afternoon, with fingers pressed to her ears against the thunderous noise, Lady Bird attended the test firing of a Saturn booster. "I never dreamed it would be that loud," she said, "It was fantastic. If you leaned up against this wall you just could feel it was quivering." Before leaving she recalled girlhood days in Alabama: "Until I was about 20, summertime always meant Alabama to me. With Aunt Effie we would board the train in Marshall and ride to the part of the world that meant watermelon cuttings, picnics at the creek...
...Hand in Hand." On the five-mile ride into Mexico City, some 200,000 people lined the streets (v. 1,500,000 who turned out for Jack and Jackie Kennedy in 1962). Standing in his black Mercedes convertible, De Gaulle was showered with vivas and confetti. Everywhere, in shop windows, in newspapers, on billboards, portraits of De Gaulle beamed back at the visitor. They ranged from thumbnail-size De Gaulles on 1,000,000 commemorative stamps to a five-story likeness hung in Mexico City's Plaza de la Constituci...
...this transfigured world, there is delight as well as drama. On a quiet evening, "a night where kings in golden suits ride elephants over mountains," a common citizen might see a door across the way fly open, "and out comes Mrs. Babcock without any clothes on, pursued by her naked husband. Over the terrace they go and in at the kitchen door, as passionate and handsome a nymph and satyr as you will find on any wall in Venice...
...president of the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad, Jervis Langdon Jr., 59, is a realist as well as a third-generation railroader: he takes a train out on business trips but flies home to save time. To tempt other businessmen to ride the rails at least one way, Langdon's B. & O. last week announced a 31% cut in some first-class fares between Eastern cities and the Midwest. If the lure fails, the B. & O. will move to end its money-losing passenger service. This kind of pragmatism, coupled with assistance from the Chesapeake & Ohio that controls...
...them recognizable (one of Ugetsu, for instance), most of them not. Good parody can be broad, but it musn't be rubbed in; why does Mr. Mekas choose to have Japanese characters appear on the screen in the Ugetsu scene and Cyrllic subtitles flash on during a sleigh ride when the music in both cases makes the jokes perfectly well? Mr. Mekas' other comedy technique is the avoidance of all logical transition between events in the film. I should say that a number of persons in the audience seemed to be laughing themselves silly at all the non-sequiturs...