Word: visitant
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Bunuel leads us along the borderline of bourgeois satire, in a vein as old as Moliere; but only briefly. Sadist Josef is an anti-Semite, and his violent Fascist explosions shatter the relatively calm surface of the satire. A visit from the cure begins as a mild lampoon of the clergy, but breaks all bounds when Madame seeks a little sex-education...
Sagan, assistant professor of Astronomy, said that an occasional visit from a far-off world is conceivable, but not the three or four a day that have been claimed. "It is as if all the anthropologists in the United States converged on the Andaman Islands at the same time because (the natives) just discovered the fish...
American military police do patrol the compound and check the pass of each G.I. entering. Vietnamese girls who want to work in Disneyland must obtain a special entertainer's card and visit An Khe's clinic once a week for a medical examination by Vietnamese doctors and a U.S.-provided shot of a long-lasting penicillin-type drug to suppress disease. Forced to choose between morality and the morale of their men, the division's officers are clearly troubled by Disneyland. But, as one colonel explained, "We wanted to get the greatest good for our men with...
...Lord Moran shows Churchill, clad only in a silk undershirt, trying desperately to plug up the drafts in an unheated airplane ("On his hands and knees, he cut a quaint figure with his big, bare, white bottom"). He reveals that Churchill suffered a mild heart attack while on a visit to the U.S. in December of 1941-and that he kept it a secret, even from Churchill himself. Reason: the war was going badly, and "I felt that the effect of announcing that the P.M. had had a heart attack could only be disastrous...
...golf with a handicap of 18, arranged for Singapore's Prime Minister Lee Kuan Yew, 42, to be on his side against two of 'Arold's customary golfing partners, a pair of businessmen. That was a neat stroke, since Lee, in England on an eight-day visit, handles the clubs better than almost any Prime Minister in the world. But after a half-hour's play on the Ellesborough Golf Club course near Chequers, a cloudburst doused the winning P.M.s, and soon they gave up the game...