Word: wanderings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...trip to Smith from Cambridge will also be a good deal shorter as the Northampton-bound driver will no longer have to wander aimlessly through the wastelands of Athol and other central Massachusetts hamlets...
...create a chunk of space on earth, California's Litton Industries Inc. has developed a vacuum chamber big enough to hold a man. The device can simulate conditions some 200 miles above the earth, where air molecules wander around as individual particles, not as a gas. Wearing a space suit, a scientist eventually will enter the vacuum and experiment with such puzzling problems as the behavior of lubricants in space, and the reaction of a model satellite, minus a protective cushion of air, to sunlight. X rays and ultraviolet rays beamed in through portholes in the chamber...
Lust for Life is still excellent and still at the Kenmore. Van Gogh gets exceptional color photography, and Kirk Douglas rarely gets in the way. Anastasia makes little out of a lovely thing, but Ingrid Bergman is superb. Helen Hayes and Yul Brynner wander in and out every now and then. At RKO Keith. The Great Man is dead. Long live his greatness? Jose Ferrer snoops around tensely, and says no. A tidy film. At the Beacon Hill. Baby Doll doesn't deserve all the publicity but contains three brilliant performances--by Eli Wallach, Karl Malden, and baby-blond newcomer...
Julius' and Melanie's main aim in life is not to get bored to death, so they wander feebly to Spain and France, their pockets full of Merz money, their lives empty of solid interests. When Melanie dies (of tubercular tedium), Julius leaves their daughter to be raised by the kindly Merzes, and marries an Englishwoman who is kind to his pets. The stalemated wanderings begin again: soon the cosmopolitan millpond is covered with the crisscrossing tracks of society's idle, discontented water beetles. The never-changing House of Merz is the center and paymaster...
...average life" of the invaders on the beach was "measured in a handful of seconds." Author Thompson, a British war correspondent, ably describes "the shuddering chaos of ships and men," the massacres in the beam of a German searchlight, the tragic survivors, a few of whom were found wander ing days later in England, not knowing "who they were or where they were...