Word: wonderful
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Project Jennifer trip necessary? Would it have been worth its high price tag if the entire submarine had been recovered? Some congressional critics of the CIA last week said no; Senator Frank Church suggested that the agency had wasted money on the project, saying, "No wonder we are broke." By contrast, a top CIA official insists that had the project succeeded, it would have been "the biggest single intelligence coup in history...
Most of these stories are experienced through the medium of an immature female consciousness. These girls and young women are acute observers--their very immaturity allows them to see and wonder at the contradictions other people are forced to live with. In the title story, for example, Louise--just released from a private mental institution--finds herself a boarder at the home of the middle-aged Tobeys. Dennis Tobey is a minor celebrity--a dancer now laid up with Hodgkins' disease, but still the subject of adoring paeans delivered by his well-meaning friends. One of these assures his wife...
...magnificent schlock, it's your loss. Sensurround--the greatest innovation to hit movies since 3D glasses--feels like a bout on a motel room bed with the Magic Fingers massager. Sure the script and actors are worthless (except for old Lloyd Nolan) but when the Sensurround starts, you'll wonder how you ever lived without it. They set up these big 15 foot speakers, see and when it's time for the quake, big waves of low intensity sound roll out across the audience, untying shoelaces and knocking out denture plates. The special effects put DeMille to shame...
...P.D.Q. experimented widely with unusual sound. Few of his innovations made it into the mainstream of Western music, and few who heard the Serenoodle last weekend--with members of the Band's expanded percussion section playing police whistle, duck call popgun cowbell and highly anachronistic electric car horn--will wonder...
...wonder that even in the limited circulation of British "little magazines," Orwell attracted an international following-and a roster of rabid enemies. For though he thought of himself as a thoroughgoing leftist, he was in fact an enemy of all political movements. When other Etonians sought upward mobility, Orwell literally immersed himself in dirty water and coal dust to investigate the lives of the dishwasher and the miner. When his peers went up to London to seek careers, he went to Spain as a correspondent and stayed to fight against Franco's troops. When many fellow leftists sang...