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...full of is an incredible, moldering array of Victorian furnishings and doodads, including a grandfather clock that intones Land of Hope and Glory and sprouts tiny Union Jacks. The set is a top-floor apartment in an architecturally senile London building. The ceiling leaks plaster, the walls are held upright by a huge wall divider, and one can step unwarily on a rug, as Eugene does, and sink a foot or so through the rotting floorboards...
...immediate goal of getting shelter from the blistering cold and icy gale-winds, however, brought them circling around the summit of the mountain. All hope of getting back to the shelter was lost after another hour because the blizzard had become so fierce that they could no longer walk upright. Stranded with only minimal supplies and food, the group had no other choice but to try to build up some sort of shelter and hope the blizzard subsided before they starved or froze...
Network censors, like almost everyone else, are a little less upright in the wee hours; thus Tomorrow plans to focus on controversial subjects and straight, even abrasive talk. "The Tonight audience wants to be entertained," claims Tomorrow's Producer Rudy Tellez. "But at 1 a.m. you have a different kind of audience, one that wants to be informed, that wants to know what's happening." Perhaps. Maybe some people simply want to get to sleep...
...written the classic book on the subject, The Dancing Bees, Von Frisch went on to publish Man and the Living World (1936), an ethological survey of the life sciences. It ranges from behaviorist speculations on the cause of man's relatively weak sense of smell (since man stands upright, his nose is too far from the ground to follow spoors any more) to the fact that calluses on the feet are inherited...
...surprise but his own, Wintergreen discovers that advancement means compromise and corruption, and that the world is mean, arbitrary and crazy. At the end, trying to off the seat of his motorcycle and dies, dazed and upright, sitting in the middle of a wilderness highway like a discarded puppet...