Word: shipboard
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...well aware that no one man could have won them all. "Grouped together," he says, "they stand for valor." Carefully examined, they also say something else. Since his cover figure represents a military Establishment under attack, Navy Man Wheeler decided to slip in a nautical signal for trouble. On shipboard, that would be the ensign flying upside down; on the cover, it is two ribbons turned over...
...newest cigarette commercials on TV, but it looks as old as the George Washington Hills. A Marlboro-type man is seen puffing happily in a duck blind. Cut. The sound track plays Smoke Gets in Your Eyes while a Winston kind of couple revels in a shipboard romance. Cut. A Salem-style twosome, high on tobacco and each other, enjoy an apres-ski spree. How can such a splice-up of burnt-out cliches sell cigarettes? That's the point. The voiceover during the 60-second spot has been saying right along: "Cigarette smoke contains some interesting elements: carbon monoxide...
...Urban waste disposal by shipboard incinerators...
...movies that are morally pretentious. With "holy hindsight," she wrote, Screenwriter Abby Mann and Producer Stanley Kramer had used Ship of Fools to heap scorn on Germans and Jews who lacked the prescience to see that Nazism was coming. The film, she asserted, implies too facile an equation between shipboard rudeness and the Final Solution. "Hitlerism," Kael maintained, "was not produced because people don't love each other enough, and it is non-sense to give us dinner-party snubs as the beginnings of the gas chambers. I can easily imagine avoiding Kramer and Mann at a party...
...uncontrollable passion for a young boy. He visited Florence in 1963 and is recalled by some members of the British colony there as a boozy windbag who told his stories too many times. In 1964, only 57 but seeming old and trembling in his anatomies, he died on shipboard after a U.S. lecture tour. On his tombstone, he is described as an author "who from a troubled heart delighted others, loving and praising this life...