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After a promising beginning, Father Goose hits the shoals and settles down as a slick but superficial imitation of The African Queen. Its darling juveniles strain their precocity to freshen up the familiar fireworks between a proper young lady and an improper gent. The war itself looks like one of the livelier attractions at Disneyland. Grant and Caron endure pretty little hardships, finally try to get married by a chaplain over short-wave radio during a Japanese strafing attack...
...sssssssssss. The ubiquitous hiss comes from the vast, ever-expanding array of aerosol cans that has brought the pushbutton age to everyday living. There are already more than 300 products available in aerosol cans, and their uses range from the routine to the recondite; they perfume rooms, freshen mattresses, renew golf balls, stiffen petticoats, bandage wounds, de-ice windshields, inflate flat tires, wax furniture, varnish oil paintings, scare off snakes and ward off pregnancies...
...were composites of men in public life, the play bounced onto Broadway four years ago, timed for the 1960 elections. The 1964 movie version tries to be similarly topical, but the prototypes don't match any now around. Some of the dialogue still sizzles, but the effort to freshen it with references to integration only points up how out of date the Eisenhower-Nixon-Stevenson jokes...
...dictator is Billy Liar, hero of a tragicomic fantasy that squeaks out a success by using its essentially hackneyed humor to freshen up what might have been merely another grim study of working-class life in the industrial cities of England. To make this world bearable, Billy embroiders it with fantasies, one of which encompasses a swell little totalitarian state known as Ambrosia. It is well worth a visit, largely because the acting is unbeatable...
...across the face of an oscilloscope. Called the Cambridge Electron Accelerator, the machine cost $12 million (paid by the Atomic Energy Commission), is 236 ft. in diameter, and consumes enough electricity at full power to operate 40 medium-sized TV stations. Its practical use is nil. It will never freshen sea water, cure cancer, or solve any other specific problem of applied science. But in the hands of Harvard and M.I.T. scientists, it will probe far beyond the frontier of present physical knowledge. No one knows what waits to be found in this dark region, but physicists are sure...