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...where the garden is gravel and a robot polishes the floor. They try to get Hulot a job with the firm, they try to set him up with a neighbor widow, they try to reform him; they fail, of course. He makes sausages out of plastic hose at the plant, devastates their garden party, and transports their son on his fuming motorbike. The characters, in their smug posturings and ridiculous appearance, are like cartoon characters, as the film itself is a plotless continuity of cartoon-like situations. It is one of the funniest bunches of cartoons ever assembled...
...kind of Norman Rockwell of the plastic arts purports to trace the significant events of Lincoln's life on a clay facsimile of his forehead. This furrow is Gettysburg. Pinch...
Slowly over the years, hard-working Malcolm White had lifted himself up from edge-of-hunger poverty to affluence. A longtime salesman, he started a small electric-wire factory in an abandoned schoolhouse 15 years ago, built it up into a prosperous firm, Chester Cable Corp., making wires, plastic cable sheathing, and lately, hula hoops. With 140 workers, Chester Cable was the biggest employer in Chester. N.Y. (pop. 1,200). 62 miles north of New York City. Grey and frail-looking, White. 48, lived with his wife and 16-month-old son in a handsome house with a fine view...
...patent-seeking idea. Patents are described in ordinary English, and ordinary English proved too imprecise for literal-minded computers. The word glass, for instance, means a material and a long list of things made out of that material. It also means additional things (water glasses and eyeglasses made of plastic) that have nothing to do with glass. Such things confuse computers...
Faster Baggage Loading. All luggage for one city will be placed in large protective plastic containers that are hoisted automatically into the jet's belly, enabling workers to load-and unload-twice as much baggage in the same time. "Right now," says an American executive, "we are still loading baggage on planes the same way they loaded Cleopatra's barge...