Word: wanderer
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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COCA-COLA has a walk-through exhibition that lets you wander down a street in Hong Kong, past the Taj Mahal, up into the Alps, through a Cambodian rain forest and onto the deck of a cruise ship off Rio. On the way out is a delightful display of antique Coke bottles and advertisements...
...show that started with a swift skid through schmaltz (a 90-minute medley of scenes from Jacques Offenbach's romantic opera, Tales of Hoffmann) and finished with a swift skip through the silly side of the medium (a hilarious short subject in which the actors in one movie wander accidentally into another...
...Author Clark's book. She lards her account with odd facts (the pearl producer is not an oyster at all but a mollusk known as Meleagrina), sketches of local characters, and wordy, impressionistic evocations of the Breton countryside. At such moments a reader's attention may well wander, but for the most part Author Clark holds him with wit and verbal polish. It is the process known as tromper le lecteur...
...forced that faith is. Prescott is a ferocious disciplinarian and moralist in order to cover his own numerous anxieties. He is strangely obsessed, for instance, with homosexuality. He encourages vicious hazing to make the boys "tough." All play is aggressively organized, and Prescott will not let the boys wander off anywhere in pairs. "I did not think a hundred examples of David and Jonathan were worth one of sodomy!" he thunders...
...SPACE PARK. Off the beaten track, with no waiting line, here fairgoers can wander among satellites (everything from TIROS to Telstar), see the Mercury capsule that took Scott Carpenter into orbit, the 90-ft.-high Titan II-Gemini rocket and spacecraft, as well as models of the butt end of the monster rocket Saturn V, its Apollo capsule, and Lem, the lunar excursion module that will land on the moon...