Word: tunnell
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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PLAZA SUITE is a ride through a tunnel of fun, flecked with a recognition of life's unfunny truths. In three playlets, Neil Simon hawks almost uninterrupted laughter, particularly in a sly satire of the Sunset Strip set, and a flailing farce about the father of a most reluctant bride...
...next concern: Alioto journeyed to Washington and New York-to squeeze 3,000 new maintenance jobs out of San Francisco-serving airlines, create job opportunities in the post office, fire department, trade unions and in the Bay Area Rapid Transit's 75-mile construction project, which includes a tunnel under Market Street. Manhattan Banker David Rockefeller bent to Alioto's urging that a $250 million Embarcadero construction project -known locally as "Rockefeller Center West"-soon get under way. By careful cajolery, Alioto persuaded Warner Bros, to build a public swimming pool in Hunters Point-the ghetto...
...climate at Shaw is repressive. The campus policeman, known by students as "Deputy Dawg," is a powerful symbol. Students accuse him of "hunting for trouble." citing his nightly rout of couples from a popular tunnel that runs under a super-highway. A rigidly enforced curfew requires upperclassmen girls to be in the dorm by ten, and they must sign out whenever they leave the campus. A glance at the sign-out book on an ordinary day exposes trips to the laundromat, to the post-office, or to Woolworth...
...similar physical set-up conveys a completely different spirit in Steinberg's alphabetic synopsis of America. The skies are filled with TWA and KLM, set slightly above NBC, CBS and RCA. The IRT comes up from a fat tunnel in the earth surrounded by AFL-CIO and IBM. He plays with these abbreviations to clinch the institutional American panorama...
...this romantic point of view, Michèle covered the Viet Nam war for nine months, and indeed her life seemed charmed. Deciding to motor the whole length of South Viet Nam, she made 400 miles before the Viet Cong captured her. They treated her considerately, even sharing their tunnel with her during a U.S. air strike. Later, she wrote a vivid article for LIFE Interna tional, in which she stressed her captors' gentleness and perseverance. She contributed battle footage to an anti-U.S. film, Far from Vietnam; a book of hers about the war, The Two Shores...