Word: tunnelling
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...brashness lets the Nazis realize that something is going on under their noses, but with all the rowdy hubba-hubba that fills the compound, they do not guess that it is going on under their feet as well. Platoons of men are down in the dark earth burrowing a tunnel toward the surrounding forest. Brains of the operation is Big X (Richard Attenborough), a leader of past breakouts in other camps; among his staff specialists are the Forger (Donald Pleasence) and the Scrounger (James Garner). Steve McQueen plays an American fly boy with a carhop grin who pesters guards...
Every plotter does his part. To hide the sound of a tunnel being chipped through the concrete floor of a bunkhouse washroom, the clink of the pick is synchronized with the banging of the hammer innocently driving a horseshoe-pitching stake outside. Wardrobes of German clothes are run up from blankets and uniforms dyed in coffee or ink; whole wallets full of identity papers are forged; money, emergency rations, maps are scrounged. The tunnel is a marvel of Swiss Family Robinson ingenuity, with electric lights, a little subway running on wooden tracks, a bellows-operated ventilation system...
...General of the Army Douglas MacArthur, 83, memories came flooding back when the Philippine government presented him with a 30-lb. chunk of reddish granite. The stone was cut from the mouth of Corregidor's Malinta Tunnel, where in 1942 U.S. and Philippine troops held out for four months against Japanese forces. Said MacArthur, his eyes misty as he touched the souvenir: "Corregidor-a wartime rock -but in it, it holds the symbol of the honor of two great nations...
...roof of the largest building, which stretches tunnel-like nearly 1,700 ft., is concrete poured over short, cylindrical shell forms and troweled by hand. A second building is basically an airy vault-a 200-ft. structure with two rows of nine columns running along each side. Because of the constant salt spray in the air, a steel building would have wasted a fortune in maintenance, and, in any case, this structure in concrete costs about 20% less. But, as always, Candela will pronounce it good only if it works. "It will not be me but Alcoa that decides...
...commitment to do a film, has the organization and backing all set, and is struggling to find an idea. On a more mystical plane, 8½ casts light on his condition in a series of dream-and-memory sequences probing back into childhood. The film opens silently on a tunnel clogged with stalled cars and buses. As Mastroianni tries to start his car, fumes surge into it and he begins to suffocate. Mastroianni finally floats in fantasy out of the car, out of the tunnel and into...