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Mapped here under the big bold sky is America's Geography of Conspiracy. If Disney were to create a theme park celebrating American paranoia (Suspicionland U.S.A.), it might want to base the design on central Nevada. Tumbleweed stretches of empty highway roller-coaster over mountain ranges and down into salt flats, past ghost towns, federal prisons and legal brothels surrounded by barbed wire. In the sky, fighter-bombers execute mock dogfights and shoot laser-guided munitions at dummy air bases built from bales of hay. Gold mines--some old and haunted, some new and bustling--dominate corroded mountainsides...
Back in Austin, surrounded by rusty mining tools and curling 1950s girlie calendars, Wolfers sweeps up the last few splinters of glass. "This is their playground." He looks up at the sky. "They come in here from out East, all full of beans, and do their loop-the-loops and smash things up, and then their superiors cover up for them. They don't want bad news to get out. We locals know, though." Presumably Wolfers is talking about the Navy again, although he never specifies who "they" are. In central Nevada, "they" might be anyone...
...used to envy Grantland Rice. Part of my jealousy had to do with the desire to write phrases like "Outlined against the blue-gray October sky..." But what I really coveted was the athletes Rice covered in the 1920s and '30s, the so-called Golden Age of Sports: Ty Cobb, Jim Thorpe, Bobby Jones, Bill Tilden, Babe Ruth, Babe Didrikson, Red Grange, the Brown Bomber, the Four Horsemen and the Four Musketeers...
...Shakespeare's original "wooden O." Located on the south bank of the Thames only a tuppence's throw from the site of the original, the new Globe is relentlessly authentic, from its brick plinth foundation and English oak beams right up to its thatched roof, which opens to the sky, and maybe the rain, in the center. But the Globe is more than just the ultimate theme park for Shakespeare fanatics. It is also the arena for a fresh and fascinating style of Shakespeare performance...
This is a bright movie, in both senses of the word. The visual style, inspired by the pointy illustrations of Gerald Scarfe (who served as production designer), challenges the eye: blink, and you'll miss the sign in the sky indicating that Marilyn Monroe isn't just a star, she's a whole constellation. The script by Musker, Clements, Bob Shaw, Donald McEnery and Irene Mecchi is rife with Oedipus riffs, Achilles spiels, Zeus zingers and roman-numeral jokes--"Somebody call IX-I-I." The Greeks had a word for it: shtick...