Word: strays
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...situation-comedy writer, Lodge tailors his story and his characters to fit a loose collection of gags. The suspicion rises that he thought up the gags first. It is funny, of course, to see firemen swarm through the museum library on a false alarm, hosing down the stray scholar's pipe. But they are dispossessed figures like TV actors left standing on the studio stage while the scenery is being shifted for the next guffaw-in full view of the camera...
...symbolism and reality do not always coincide. Although the new bridge shortens the autobahn between Munich and West Berlin by 21 miles, it provides no link whatsoever between East and West Germany: the autobahn runs through a sealed corridor from which motorists cannot stray. Its inauguration, moreover, had to be accomplished without ceremony because the two governments refused to meet each other to open it. Bridge or no bridge, the truth is that the two Germanys seem to be drawing farther apart. For the first time since 1962, the Berlin Wall remained closed for Christmas this year: Bonn and Pankow...
...dogs." Apparently he sees them as some how different from other suburbanites, and the paper started in by catering to dog owners with a story on a local dog pound. The reporter turned up a more bizarre personality than he seemed to realize. As he discussed the number of stray dogs he must gas to death, the "dog warden" blurted out: "It's the damned people that I'd like to put in the gas chamber...
...PLANE CONTROL. U.S. forces in Viet Nam will get Litton Industries' computers to direct combat missions. With the aid of radar and display screens, airborne computers will show pilots precisely where to go, signal corrections if they stray off course. A command control plane will carry a computer no bigger than a big dictionary that will keep track of all planes in a strike; a similar computer could control the air traffic at a big-city airport...
...take-off, it was clear that Brown's film was about the sport of surfing, not the cult. He ignored the beach goings-on, the bikinied "beach bunnies," and the faked-up music; instead he kept his camera on the athletes who navigated through a sea of underwater rocks, stray boards, sharks, poisonous fish, and other surfers...