Word: endless
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...plot is as simple as a storybook. Philip (Mark Lester) is a ten-year-old child who wanders the moors of Devonshire, wondering at the endless varieties of nature around him. His only companion is a retired colonel (John Mills) who teaches him how to identify wildlife and how to train and fly a falcon. But Philip cannot communicate either his enthusiasm or thanks: he is autistic, a puzzle and a burden to his parents for most of his life. It is not until after he encounters a wild white colt early one morning that he begins even to respond...
...Scheffer's vision, the whale, for all his mammoth visibility, becomes the ultimate enigma in the enigma of the sea: "A hundred chemicals and a million living sparks and a billion bits of drift, no two alike ... an endless, moving, thin, transparent soup; a cosmic stock forever old and ever...
...with the Pink Floyd in Tonight Let's All Make Love in London or as Robert Nelson did in The Grateful Dead; rather he sticks it in and lets it lay there, guaranteeing large audiences. In my view the film is poorer for it. Nothing in Easy Rider's endless shots of motorcycles (stolen, as was some of Roger Corman's work in Wild Angels--in which Fonda also starred--from Kenneth Anger's incantatory Scorpio Rising) matches the groaning ferocity of Steppenwolf's lyrics ("Get the motor running/Shoot out on the highway/Looking for adventure/And whatever comes our way/Hey darling...
...chief characteristics of the symposium are the sea and air and sun, and endless talk. Anthropologist Margaret Mead, who has been on all but one of the trips, says that the symposium is the closest thing she knows to the great English country house parties at the turn of the century, and the comparison is just...
Management also has endless trouble with most of the 17 unions that represent 6,500 employees. M.T.A. officials feel that the old private owners of the L.I.R.R. allowed the unions to run the railroad and perpetuate featherbedding. Union men fear that the M.T.A. intends to eliminate jobs. A legacy of labor-management bitterness has been left by a slowdown last summer in the Dunton car-repair shop, which has never returned to its old operating pace, and a week of wildcat strikes and slowdowns that greeted the introduction of a new timetable last fall. One commuter recently phoned for train...