Word: wondering
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...past. The ocean Solaris, Kelvin begins to understand, draws men's dreams from their subconscious during the night and makes them materialize, not in flesh and blood but in "neutrinos," an indestructible substance that renders the apparitions immortal. Hence the "guests"--they are dreams brought to life. No wonder the ocean looks grey and creviced, like a brain. A simple Freudian parable. Maybe...
Fretted Mathias: "I cannot help but wonder whether, by continuing and expanding the school lunch program, we aren't witnessing, if not encouraging, the slow demise of yet another American tradition: the brown bag ... Perhaps we are beholding yet another break in the chain that links child to home...
When lung cancer killed Walt Elias Disney a decade ago, there were fears that the world of Disney would lose some of its wonder-and its profits. But before his own death in 1971, Roy Disney, who succeeded his younger brother, and a cadre of post-Walt executives had turned Walt Disney Productions into a thriving empire of fantasy. Today the company is bigger and richer than ever. Profits flow in from Disney's two successful theme parks, Disneyland in California and the magic kingdom at Walt Disney World in Florida, from film rentals and television, from re-releases...
...youth who helped his crippled father to the inaugural stand in the dark days of 1933, was an aging, unrecognized figure one morning last week, searching for the entrance to Madison Square Garden, surprised when someone greeted him in the crowd. Thomas ("Tommy the Cork") Corcoran, an F.D.R. wonder boy, was reported by the newspapers to be in New York as the escort of the convention's chairwoman, Lindy Boggs. And somebody looked around the room at a party given by Arthur Schlesinger, Roosevelt historian, Stevenson partisan and Kennedy aide, and remarked, "Ah, we have here all the best...
...this way is a refreshing and salutary experience," says Yves Montand. No wonder. Of late, he has been assassinated in Z, tortured in The Confession and kidnaped and murdered in State of Siege, but in the comedy he is now filming in Italy, Le Grand Esco-griffe (an exuberant man too clever for his own good), Montand is permitted the luxury of survival. "This comedy is sublime," he says. Ridiculous, too: the hopelessly ill-fated kidnaper-star ends up stuck with the kidnapee...