Word: binning
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...farmers rush to gather in a bin-busting harvest, their fortunes have improved. The prices that farmers received averaged 23% higher in September than a year earlier, while the prices they paid for tools, fertilizer and consumer goods?including food?rose only 10%. Most crops have been bountiful enough this year to cause even retail food prices to level off after a frightening winter-spring rise. The Department of Agriculture predicts record 1978 crops of corn, soybeans, hay and fall potatoes. Corn is so abundant that Midwestern farmers are storing it on streets, playgrounds and tennis courts...
...some way "right," when you "know" that the individual is sacred and must not submit himself to anything larger, like the Godhead or transcendent oneness with the world, when you are committed to the material world of things and have consigned mystical and visionary experiences to the hallucinations/delusions bin. Unfortunately you tend to produce a narrow work when you assume the conclusions before beginning the research...
...story follows the whimsical adventures of an American soldier (changed from British in the film) sent into a deserted French village to find explosives left by retreating Germans. What he finds is not bombs, but wackos. Lots of wackos, residents of the local loony bin who find themselves out on the streets after the regulars flee. You can just imagine what ensues...
...dancing, singing, and general frolic on stage. When Alan Bates shed his clothes and stood at the asylum gates at the close of the film, it was clear that he was rejecting the crazy world outside for the sane world of the crazies. When Johnny runs into the bin at the end of the musical, well, it's just as easy, given the build-up, to assume that he's going in there because his buddies are there, the people who've been nicer to him than anybody else. War? What war? This is a musical, baby, and the soldiers...
...Martin, apparently in somewhat shaky physical and mental health, wants his job back. Bob Lemon must feel great, and the rest of the club (led of late by Thurman Munson, who has been consistently hot through July) must feel as if they are trapped in a moving looney bin...