Word: shipboard
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...into operation by Central Gulf Steamship Corp. next month. The vessel will be able to carry 39,000 tons of cargo aboard 73 barges. Under plans devised by Jerome Goldman, a New Orleans marine architect, the barges will be hoisted out of the water by a giant shipboard crane and stored vertically in 14 bays on the LASH...
...well aware that no one man could have won them all. "Grouped together," he says, "they stand for valor." Carefully examined, they also say something else. Since his cover figure represents a military Establishment under attack, Navy Man Wheeler decided to slip in a nautical signal for trouble. On shipboard, that would be the ensign flying upside down; on the cover, it is two ribbons turned over...
...newest cigarette commercials on TV, but it looks as old as the George Washington Hills. A Marlboro-type man is seen puffing happily in a duck blind. Cut. The sound track plays Smoke Gets in Your Eyes while a Winston kind of couple revels in a shipboard romance. Cut. A Salem-style twosome, high on tobacco and each other, enjoy an apres-ski spree. How can such a splice-up of burnt-out cliches sell cigarettes? That's the point. The voiceover during the 60-second spot has been saying right along: "Cigarette smoke contains some interesting elements: carbon monoxide...
...Urban waste disposal by shipboard incinerators...
...movies that are morally pretentious. With "holy hindsight," she wrote, Screenwriter Abby Mann and Producer Stanley Kramer had used Ship of Fools to heap scorn on Germans and Jews who lacked the prescience to see that Nazism was coming. The film, she asserted, implies too facile an equation between shipboard rudeness and the Final Solution. "Hitlerism," Kael maintained, "was not produced because people don't love each other enough, and it is non-sense to give us dinner-party snubs as the beginnings of the gas chambers. I can easily imagine avoiding Kramer and Mann at a party...