Word: interrupted
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Around Lakeland, phosphate miners are tearing huge holes in the earth that endanger the local water table. At the edge of Big Cypress Swamp, drainage ditches for new housing may interrupt the already imperiled water flow into the Everglades. To the north, Walt Disney Productions is building a City of Tomorrow for 50,000 people that may cut off some of Orlando's water supply, since the site is atop porous soil that lets rainwater into Florida's vital aquifer. That underground layer of limestone stores much of the state's annual 57 inches of rainfall...
...Company completes this process of transforming the musical. This show has fourteen charaters and all but one of them also serve as nameless vocal commentators on the action. Very few scenes are broken up by characters bursting into song; all songs fall between scenes or, if they do interrupt the script, are sung by performers who are not in the scene which is being interrupted. The work of Rodgers and Hammerstein has been undone atlast. We are back in some sense where the musical started structurally-only the musical numbers are now not irrelevant to the show but complementary...
...third theme, I suppose, is to be found in the commercials for a company called "America, Inc.," which periodically interrupt the story. (America, Inc. is advertising a pamphlet concerning "America's Greatest Challenge"). We get another look at America through the eyes of Jean Shepperd, who provides some nostalgic remarks on drive-ins, turnpikes. Howard Johnson ses, etc. The last theme, which runs throughout the program and which is dealt with both implicitly and explicitly, concerns the way in which the presence of the television camera alters reality...