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...movie begins with a sobersided lecture by a bearded sexologist whose recondite Kinseyisms are interspersed with pornographic slides. Eventually, the action leads into the story of Isabela (Eva Ras), a sensual-mouthed switchboard operator who begins an affair with a sad-eyed ratcatcher (Slobodan Aligrudic). As the affair progresses, time begins to dissolve. Suddenly it is the future: she is dead, drowned in a well, while police search for her lover. Back in the present, the graphic lovemaking of Isabela and her ratcatcher is punctuated by an illustrated lecture on sanitation. Once again, it is the future, as her nude...
Ferber thinks they achieved the "only complete victory in the history of the civil rights movement" there. They closed down an elementary school, the city hall, and the town's switchboard through massive sit-ins. "We had the city virtually paralyzed...
...More Bull. Stopping for a few casual words with incoming workers as he left the mill, Held next drove to the Lock Haven airport, where he shot at Switchboard Operator Gerry Ramm four times, wounding her twice. Thinking it was a prank, the airport manager hustled Held outside without a protest. Then Held's obsession sent him to the Sugar Valley School, where three of his own children and some 500 others had been locked inside after police had notified the principal of Held's rampage. After circling the school, Held drove home and invaded the house...
...polling their audiences on everything from Ho Chi Minh to miniskirts, world trade to the World Series. When Station KSTR of Minneapolis-St. Paul asked whether the clergy should take part in civil rights marches, the crush of calls jammed the station's lines and short-circuited the switchboard of the nearby Midway Hospital. Of the 4,326 callers who did get through, 62% held that clergymen should stay in the pulpit and off the pavement...
...tear down another recent Hughes acquisition, the Sands Hotel. Drowning his sorrow after his casino credit was cut off at a mere $200,000, Sinatra 1) tried unsuccessfully to set fire to his suite, 2) jerked all the telephone jacks and trunk lines out of the hotel's switchboard, 3) promised a pit boss that "I'm gonna break both your legs," 4) overturned a table on the casino's credit manager who, in return, threw a punch that separated Frank from the caps on his two front teeth, and 5) announced that he was ending...