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...keep them from turning to the Soviets for weapons. Indeed, Haig in Morocco and Weinberger in Saudi Arabia and Oman were simultaneously pursuing the same objective: laying the diplomatic groundwork to secure a chain of facilities that the American Rapid Deployment Force might some day use to hopscotch from the U.S. to the Middle East on its way to counter a Soviet thrust...
Trees, planters and decorative street-lighting will be used to channel automobile movement. The entrance to Appleton will be narrowed so tightly that only one car will be able to enter at a time. Cars will be parked in clusters in a hopscotch pattern to impede the flow of autos-indeed, to slow them down to 5 to 10 m.p.h. When the overhaul is completed, cars, cyclists and pedestrians all will share wall-to-wall rights to the street, with pedestrians first among equals...
...HOPSCOTCH...
With each year Walter Matthau looks more and more like an affable bloodhound. His cheeks seem to grow pouchier, his eyes more sadly knowing, his manner ever more wisely patient. To his basic screen self this great comedian of calm has added, in Hopscotch, a nicely distracted air: he moves through the picture humming bits of Mozart and even, at times, conducting an imaginary orchestra...
This is a tale of two houses and four sisters. The time is the early 1920s, and the place is Midwestern America. The houses, with their gables and gingerbread curlicues, are hopscotch close. In their backyards unfolds a human comedy that is warm, antic, wise and utterly endearing...