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...designers try to outwit television news masters in a game of mask-ing-and-unmasking, or "I've got a secret" against "This is their secret." Television reaches its climax in the so-called great debates. For forgotten reasons these debates, sponsored by the League of Women Voters, wander like a traveling road show from city to city. They are vital as a display of contending personalities, but they have degenerated into quiz shows where candidates, stuffed with facts like geese with fat gobbets, try to outdo each other with encyclopedic tidbits-and gain extra points for well-prepared...
...Giselle," a 19th century romantic classic, was inspired by the German legend of the 'Willis'--the ghosts of young women who die before they marry. Bitterly tormented by unfulfilled love, they wander the earth from midnight to dawn luring unsuspecting males into a dance to their death...
...National Forest of northwest Colorado. It is the home of the largest elk herd (about 18,000 in all) in North America. His base is Meeker (pop. 2,356), the sleepy seat of Rio Blanco County, a town without a traffic light or a movie theater. In winter deer wander through town and are sometimes killed by motorists on Main Street. The town's economy depends heavily on the elk and deer season in October, when thousands of hunters invade the area. In summer people fish for trout in the clear lakes and streams...
Perhaps the Pilgrim nation has run out of places to wander to, and thus clings to a term that implies a perpetual future...
Jeeves and Wooster wander through their affairs, along with two handfuls of friends and associates, but the keen thing about it is all the characters are played by just one Johnnie, an Edward Duke. A definite topper, one in a million. Two of the blokes are actually women, but there's none of that pumps-and-padded foundation farrago...