Word: wonderlands
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...really know what the image of Tricia Nixon is. I suppose it varies from person to person. Anyone over the age of ten would probably be a tougher person than the Alice-in-Wonderland image-you couldn't help but be after living in the world, after living in New York City. But then, Alice was a pretty tough character herself, so maybe that's not a poor comparison...
...monastic classics and, like Mark Twain in Huckleberry Finn, revel in naming objects for their own sake. Jones' notes at the ends of his chapters are models of tart New England wit and his conversations with his friends have the unworldly, though undeniably human quality of Alice in Wonderland or Edward Lear's poem about the Jumblies-who, incidentally, did their drifting in a sieve...
...think that a philanthropist deserved the right to give his money, then sit back and take some small satisfaction in the pleasure it provides others. Or, if he prefers, just forget about it. Not in New York City. Millionaire George T. Delacorte (Dell Publishing Co.) financed an Alice in Wonderland sculpture for Central Park, then watched vandals assault it. He spent thousands on the mechanical animals that twirl in the park's zoo clock tower-and then much more on crews to repair the almost weekly breakdown of the machinery...
...Alex in Wonderland is a film that tries to deal with the corruption as well as the naivete of modern Hollywood-and, as if to take life from its own text-a film that ultimately fails just because it shares so many of the confusions of which it speaks...
...THEN, as Sutherland quickly explains, as far as he's concerned pushing MGM's Paul Mazurky-directed Alex in Wonderland, is just an excuse for him to voice his support for the Peace Treaty and his disgust with the war. So while his two-day visit to Boston includes a day-long round of interviews, tapings and television appearances, it primarily centers on a fund-raising cocktail party with Noam Chomsky speaking against the war and Sutherland reading passages from Dalton Trumbo's Johnny Get Your Gun, the money raised going to support various drives to bring the People...