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...balance of the first floor is used as studio space by the Visual and Environmental Studies Department. Upstairs are several long hallways' worth of small offices. The University piano tuner has one, so do about a dozen teachers in the East Asian Languages and Civilization Department. At one end of the floor is the Project for Kibbutz Studies, a branch of the Center for Jewish Studies that coordinates research and teaching on Israeli cooperative communities...
Along the way Tuggle takes a risk by surrounding Morris (Eastwood) with some of the most sentimentalized movie prisoners imaginable. There is an old-tuner called Doc (Roberts Blossom), who raises chrysanthemums and paints portraits, not to mention a literary librarian (Paul Benjamin) and a cuddly Italian (Frank Ronzio) with a pet mouse. Next to these lovable guys, an average Boy Scout troop would seem like a bunch of Bowery bums. The warden (Patrick McGoohan), of course, is a sadistic horror. He speaks in malevolent epigrams ("Some are never destined to leave Alcatraz - alive") and carries on what appears...
...carries a motorcycle helmet to fend off the huge hailstones that often accompany a tornado, but the only thing he admits fearing is lightning: "There's no rhyme or reason to it." Now he turns up the AM radio and rotates the tuner, listening for the pop of static that reveals the presence of lightning in the billowing clouds overhead. There is none...
Impressive? Certainly. But whether WHRB's avant-garde programming is pleasing its audience is still unclear. A female undergraduate commented that one night she couldn't find WHRB on her radio and switched the tuner futilely for several minutes. Suddenly, she said, she came upon some "very strange" rock music...
...means of radio telemetry. As the investigators explain in the Journal of Neurosurgery, they drill a small hole in the patient's skull and insert a piston so that its base rests on the brain's outer casing. Built into the piston is a miniature induction tuner. If pressure inside the cranium increases, it pushes the piston up a fraction of an inch, thus transmitting a signal to the telemetry receiver at the patient's bedside...