Word: strayed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...setting is an underground shelter fitted with intercoms and tape recorders and guarded by an electrified fence that dims the light whenever a stray animal is electrocuted. A family is hiding here from an unspecified "it" that is "moving west." Mother Eileen Heckart mangles French and Italian phrases and listens raptly to off-key recordings of her opera-diva days. She is a Venus's-fly-trap who has devoured "Fa" (he is too contemptible to deserve the other syllable) and dragooned Daughter Lakme (Susan Anspach) and Son Sigfrid (Robert Drivas) into performing strange little rituals like strewing...
...satisfying that urge. They never do. The unalterable code of the bogus sex comedy forbids it: beds are props, not stops. It would be a joke to call Playwright Hunter's dialogue comic, though an attractive young cast paced by a wry comedienne named April Shawhan pumps stray laughs into the saggy script...
...occasional drunkenness. At one point Ford is so enraged by the animal that he leaps into the truck and snorts: "I'm going to run over him-he'll never know what hit him." Later, wintering in the high country where they are hired to round up stray cattle, Ford muses moodily over whether he would rather see the roan made into soap or into dog food...
...FEET TALL. A crackling African adventure story about a stray British orphan (Fergus McClelland) and a fugitive diamond poacher (Edward G. Robinson) whose hideout is the kind of paradise that all boys dream about...
...bell, the patient, methodical Mrs. Lundberg plunges into her multiple chores. For 15 minutes she flashes reading cards to her three first-graders, has them read a story, George and the Cherry Tree. Some of the others stray from their individual assignments to follow the story. Next comes a second-grade language class for Keith Myren, 8, and Becky Koepsell, 7, interrupted by questions from the still-reading first-graders. Then second-graders read aloud, while Mrs. Lundberg checks desk-to-desk on the work of others. An eight-minute science lesson for the fourth and fifth grades centers...