Word: trained
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Little by little, each class of troutlets learned to stay as far as possible from the tin fish hanging inside the ring. It took about two weeks to train a class so completely that none of them ever risked an electric shock. Then Kanayama held a graduation exercise. He put his pupils in one half of a tank divided by a wire screen through which they could swim easily. On the other side was a grown rainbow trout too big to pass through the screen's meshes. Untutored troutlets wandered guilelessly through the screen and were swallowed...
Surprisingly, though, the story seldom lags, mainly because some first-chop talents go at it as if the idea were spanking-new. Director René Clèment (Forbidden Games) mounts several taut scenes, especially one in which passengers aboard a crowded train seize a Gestapo agent and fling him onto the rails. Fortunately, too, the dialogue by Novelist Roger Vailland neatly sidesteps heroics. "The war doesn't interest me," drawls Signoret, whose husband is safely lodged in a P.W. camp...
Surely, also, Audrey is provided with ample opportunities for her patented doe-eyed scream. Four graphic corpses, I am told, put in an appearance. The first (Audrey's hubby) is tossed battered from a speeding train. The second (a mountainous lummox with a hook where his right hand oughta be) we discover face up and fish lipped in an overflowing bathtub. Number three (a balding dry-goodsman from the Bronx or someplace) gets his throat most ostentatiously slashed in an early-morning elevator. The last is an evil-tempered Texan named, curiously enough, "Tex." Audrey finds him bound head...
Rail travel as a form of pleasure may just possibly be on its way back. Last week a travel company called Four Winds announced three "Americana Rail Cruises" in June, July and August. Each will consist of a 15-car chartered train, which will take a maximum 300 passengers on a 23-day tour of the U.S. and Mexico. For $1,095 apiece, the rail cruisers will be provided with dancing and entertainment aboard, as well as nine nights in "luxury hotels" in Washington, D.C., New Orleans, Mexico City, Denver, Los Angeles and San Francisco. The baggage allowance will...
After setting his tactics in train, Mansfield sought to shape the moral tone of the impending debate. In a Senate speech, he declared: "Individually, each Senator will consult his conscience and his constituency on this issue. It is for each Senator to determine whether he is prepared to ignore, to evade or to deny this issue or some aspect of it. But it would be a tragic error if this body as a whole were to elect the closed-eyes course of inaction...