Word: rainswept
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...across chiefly because it is entertaining and refuses to take itself seriously. To dramatize Braniff Airways' airfreight division, Zieff shows a man crated and shipped by air, arriving at his destination with not a hair out of place. For Whirlpool household appliances, he marches a repairman into a rainswept courtyard where a Gestapo-type supervisor charges him with neglecting his customers and then strips the company emblems off his shirt...
Over the blare of a dance band, the flat, jarring crack of explosions rang loud and near. "Gee," said a woman, "I hope that's a salute." Hubert Humphrey peered into the rainswept gloom outside Saigon's Independence Palace and said: "I hope so, too." The three salvos were in fact salutations from the Viet Cong, whose mortarmen thus welcomed the U.S. Vice President to Viet Nam and attempted to turn last week's inaugural reception for President Nguyen Van Thieu and Vice President Nguyen Cao Ky into a wake. Fired from the roof of a shack...
Cherry Bombs & Tapes. In Delaware, Dave Cutler, who can identify more than 200 birds by song alone, led his five-man team over 500 miles of rainswept back roads. Armed with a supply of cherry bombs (to startle sleeping birds into song) and a portable tape player programmed with 42 different calls (to trick them into answering), the team identified 187 species...
...love is an ax blade buried in lumber. Xenophobia, pyromania and sundry aberrations are touched upon, while Genet catalogues the destructive power of Woman. On the night before the woodsman is beaten to death by the villagers who suspect him of her crimes, Moreau leads her victim through rainswept meadows in one of the longest and most ludicrous love marathons ever filmed...
People walked. Thousands of New Yorkers took to their feet, trudging in refugee-like lines over rainswept streets and across the great bridges that span the East River between Manhattan and the other boroughs. Secretaries hiked 50 blocks to work; men felt the twinge of leg muscles long unused. People took to motor scooters, bicycles and, in at least one case, a horse. Many drove their cars into the city-too many. Though most of them generously picked up neighbors or strangers along the way, they often wound up stalled together for hours in massive traffic jams that surpassed anything...