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Ahead of the field headquarters was flat and absolutely barren terrain interrupted at the horizon with moonscape ridges. In the distance, Israeli tank formations rolled across the windless desert, raising long trails of stagnant dust. Helicopters with dangling cargoes fluttered back and forth. High overhead, delta-winged jets streaked toward the west, and to the north, the tree-shaped smoke of shellbursts rose from a ridge...
...Clyde), Bed and Board (a witty film by Truffaut), Exterminating Angel (pointed, vicious, yet entertaining surrealism at an upper class dinner party by Luis Bunuel), Yojimbo (a samurai Western by Kurosawa), The Hireling (a deficient companion piece to The go-Between), and finally, those two theaters wading in stagnant ponds...
...meanings A.C. held for participants were equally as varied. Florence G. Baskin views her seminar as affording an opportunity for "mental calisthenics." Others saw it as a means of escaping the "rut" of stagnant intellectuality. While many appreciated the chance for an interchange of opinions, some appreciated best the social ambiance--Mary Ellen Goodman would return no matter what A.C.'s offerings were, she so enjoys the social atmosphere, the opportunity to meet persons of other...
More evenings than not, that aisle-anchored creature the drama critic peers out over a becalmed stage, stagnant characters and dialogue indistinguishable from soggy debris. But on occasion the sight of fresh and genuine talent greets his eye, and the stage seems to quiver with dramatic life...
Apart from insecticides, little can be done to control the pests except to drain the small pools of stagnant water that serve as mosquito hatcheries, and mosquitoes can discover pools faster than men can drain them. "As for next year," says New York's Bast, "if we have a mild winter, we'll have an even worse mosquito problem in the spring...