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Good evening, and welcome to Channel 9's World Around Us.
Presenting a weekly selection of some of the best from all corners of our fascinating globe.
And now, your host for this evening, Peter Perrin.
Tonight, the final of our magnificent six-part series, Peter Ustinov's Russia.
We include a visit to the capital of Siberia, revisit Moscow and Leningrad,
and we celebrate a very special event, Ustinov's birthday.
We hope you enjoy his very personal view of the Soviet Union.
For all of Russia we are friend-zoned, For all of Russia we are united,
Tbilisi, the capital of Georgia.
And this country has been so often invaded, its towns and villages ravaged and destroyed
by Romans, by Arabs, by Mongols, more recently by Turks and by Iranians, that in 1801 it
voluntarily asked for the protection of Russia, an association which has gone on to this day,
together with Armenia in the south and Azerbaijan in the east.
There can be no question of Russian predominance here.
The spirited and original character of this people would never tolerate of such a thing,
nor was it ever the intention of the alliance.
The Soviet Union is made up of a number of republics and autonomous regions.
It's a federation of many different people and tongues, a palette with a myriad of colors.
This is one of the large markets in Tbilisi.
There are five of them, where good humor reigns on about the scale of the food stuff, with
quizzical looks, wise craft, food assessment, and old wise tales thrown into good measure.
It's easier to have a high standard of living in the smaller republics.
There is no shortage of argument and of debate here, as anybody who knows these streets and
who has seen some of the highly individual resolution of traffic problems will testify.
A story tells of a Russian driver who went through a red light in Tbilisi.
Asked by the local cop why he had done it, he replied that all Georgians do it.
Have you read the highway code, asked the policeman taking his number?
Well, of course, replied the Russian.
The policeman handed him his ticket.
They haven't, he explained.
But apart from debate, there is also harmony.
Harmony in its most palpable form, because polyphonic singing came to this country a
very long time ago.
In fact, a long time before we had it in the West.
This highly refined and exquisitely professional sound is produced by passionate amateurs.
There is a doctor, a plumber, an accountant, and a scriptwriter for TV among them.
A fitting and deeply felt obligato to the serenity of nature.
The dancers are amateurs also.
This intense activity, so much more aesthetic than jogging, may explain their unusual longevity.
Many Georgians live over 100 years.
Richard III at the Georgian National Theater, one of the most original dramatic companies
of the Soviet Union.
Their reverence for Shakespeare's timeless genius is absolute, even if their adherence
to a translated text doesn't need to be as unswerving as ours.
The show, which triumphed at Edinburgh and elsewhere, is full of rich surprises.
It's not every day that we see Richard blustering, bullying, and fawning his way to power in
Georgia.
For the first time since I was 10, I had a birthday cake with the exact number of candles
on it.
Consequently, it required four people to bring it in.
The national dance is so designed that you can't really step on anyone's toes.
All you can do is to trip on your sword, and I had a special dispensation not to wear it.
The tamadan, or toastmaster, told of his pride in socialism and proposed the health of Jesus
Christ as a great example.
Richard III was my neighbor at dinner.
This was one of my presents.
A magnificent actor, Ramaz Chikvaj.
That famous Georgian hospitality takes many forms.
This is one of the least resistible.
Tradition demands that toasts must be responded to lyrically.
But I want to thank you for one of the most extraordinary evenings that I think any of
us has ever lived through, and then to land up at this enormous banquet and to find ourselves
half-ground in your goodwill.
We clamber to the bank exhausted, perhaps happier than we've been in a long time, to
discover a wonderful country by meeting a few of its people who give the unerring impression
of being fully representative of all the others.
There's nothing more eloquent that I can say than thank you very much from the bottom of
my heart.
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Siberia is an immense surprise.
In over half the country, only the surface of the earth thaws out in summer.
The young people make the best of the short summer by enjoying the traditional grills
of the Ambulance Fun Fair, the haunted manor with shrieking ghosts and clanking chains.
Being struck by their cheerfulness, their lack of complicating, their directness.
As they line up for the low flying spaceship, they may even be able to see their homes from
up there or enjoy the beach on the riverbank within the confines of the city.
Their joys are very much like ours and there's not much sign of the dumpy Russian matron
here.
On the contrary, there's a generally high level of athletic competence, success in sport
has had its influence.
Ancient Novosibirsk is still evident, half concealed in foliage, with the new vibrant
city on the skyline behind it.
Modern Novosibirsk is the result of a wartime boom in which industries were moved out of
the zone of hostilities and it gave instant growth to this, the virtual capital of Siberia.
The locals like to refer to this as the Chicago of Siberia.
I think perhaps the Houston of Siberia is apta.
Why?
Because everywhere you look, you feel the pulse of an enormous vitality and the promise
of future prosperity.
Siberia is a word which sends a chill down many spines, it's historically associated
with labor camps, with coal, with exile, with bleakness.
Well Britain had its own Siberia once, it was called Australia.
It still is as a matter of fact and no one thinks still of it anymore.
We're about 15 miles outside Novosibirsk, the largest city in Siberia, in a little town
which is as artificial as Canberra to refer to Australia.
A little town made up not of diplomats in this instance, but of men and women of science,
Akadem Gorodov and come with me to the Geological Institute.
Here is the collected evidence of the immense, largely untapped mineral wealth of the Ural
Mountains, to say nothing of the huge stocks of oil, natural gas and precious metals lurking
under the frigid soil of northern Siberia.
This is the control room of the nuclear building in Akadem Gorodov, where scientists in a fully
computerized laboratory are able to observe sophisticated experiments with laser beams
in an atomic particle accelerator.
Here in a nursery school not far away, the children of scientists play and make their
own intricate experiments.
It's intolerable propaganda for anybody to claim that any particular people are better
with children than any other.
But I will say that the Russians on the whole have an instinct for childhood.
They make very good films about childhood.
They seem to understand children rather well, perhaps better than they understand adults.
This is also a great natural force and is a character.
After all, immediately you have character, it suggests that you have faults and that
you have strengths, virtues.
And there's one little boy in blue, he's sitting on the edge there, who reminds me terribly
of what I was like at that age.
I haven't talked to him yet because he doesn't really want to talk to me very much, as I
wouldn't have wanted to talk to him if he'd suddenly appeared looking like me in 1928.
In the Soviet Union, one comes across children's lending libraries, children's restaurants,
where tastes, both literary and culinary, are developed.
And here in Novosibirsk is one of the theaters built exclusively for children.
We've just seen the first
act of the three fat men.
I was not called upon, although I was in reserve, they were all felt very well, by a celebrated
Soviet writer, Yuri Olyashin.
And you can hear the enthusiasm.
This is a theater which seats a thousand children and one or two adults on the side.
Here are most of the audience breathing down my neck, which is quite an agreeable feeling,
although it's a hot summer, it's not the usual Siberian weather when we need warming
up.
It's extraordinary the way that children's minds are being formed here and being used
to the theater.
I mean, the first act lasts about an hour and they were extremely quiet, except when
they were called upon to laugh or to be thrilled.
And here they all are.
They can obviously understand all sorts of languages.
They think they don't, but I'm sure they do.
This is a merry Siberian folk song sung by the choir of the Glinka Conservatory in Novosibirsk.
A girl in a graveyard is asking her dead mother for permission to marry with some misgiving.
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Their mothers are still mercifully alive.
And judging by the elaborate preparations of the wedding palace, consent has not been
withheld.
What is extraordinary is that the replacement of religious weddings by secular ones has
taken nothing away from the solemnity of these occasions.
The ritual is as precise as in any church.
And the step by step of mounting tension, culminating in the matrimonial pact, is relieved
by a kind of good humour and furtive smiles exchanged, which remind them all that this
is supposed to be a happy event.
An event of profound responsibility, with consequences which only the old may mention
without blushing.
Oddly all this is far more reminiscent of church than of the registry office.
And even the robe of the matrimonial official has a clerical look to it.
There are of course no hymns, but there are folk songs dedicated to hymenal bliss and
applause.
And when they have signed the relevant documents and received their licenses together with
a souvenir, there is the national anthem to put a seal of approval on it all.
The young couple leave the ceremony in a white limousine, but before they can plunge into
the untried delights of married life, there is one more solemn obligation.
It is the custom for newlyweds to visit a memorial to the heroes of the patriotic war
and deposit their bouquet of flowers on the anonymous tomb.
A message from the very much alive to the glory of death.
Compared to Russia, America has had a short and blessed history.
The civil war is about the only dissent which couldn't be settled by argument or consensus,
and that was a small enough thing compared to the convulsions elsewhere.
America has never known an invasion or a famine on any scale.
Oh, true, she's had a market collapse and a depression, but these are merely the outward
signs of an inherent wealth.
And the speed in which the reaction to them set in was a proof of the inherent buoyancy
and optimism of the American people.
The Russians are also fond of their joys, but they have a soft spot in their heart for
their miseries.
Their art and their music has made an artistic delight of sadness.
The will of melancholy is bottomless and laughter is a close relative of tears.
There's no other people that speaks so unashamedly of its soul, not for want of a better word,
but because there is simply no other way to express that aching inner void, which is of
course no void at all, but is a vibrant nerve exposed to everything.
Modern Russia still has its cupboards, within which are not only the archives of a troubled
past, but its skeletons as well.
In the middle of the last century, Goncharov, a talented writer, who was a state censor
as well by the way, produced his masterpiece Oblomoff, a fictitious figure who became truer
than the tru.
Just as Don Quixote captured the spirit of a certain romantic crackpot Spain, Oblomoff
was redolent of the slothful, indolent Russia, incapable of cohesion and utterly inactive.
Until recently, Russia was still the only country where the police would give a driver
a ticket for having a dirty car.
It was all part of the battle against Oblomoff in their midst.
Where is Oblomoff today?
Hello?
He fell asleep in 1858.
Well, there was no one to keep me out.
No.
Not at all.
judge.
I sent him to the city, and he hasn't returned yet.
He should be back soon.
Why did I send him?
I can't remember.
Probably to get rid of him.
What's the problem with a servant?
Most of the time, she does nothing
and makes them think of different things
to get them.
And when they leave, they become so necessary.
You see my other thoughts.
Oh, I'm so tired.
I could do a lot of very interesting and wonderful things in life.
If I had the opportunity to carry out my plans
and not waste time on entertaining my servant.
Well, shall I get something for you?
Thank you. Thank you very much.
A dog.
Why didn't it bark when you came in?
Well, I saw the dog, but it was asleep.
Ah, but they say that over time
animals become like their owners.
Go through the black hole if you don't mind.
Why?
Until Zakhar is gone.
Until Zakhar is gone, I want to take a nap
and I don't want to wake up from a dog's snoring.
Woof woof!
Don't be naive, Arthur.
Oh, I'm gonna have to put your pants on.
Will you please keep your shirt on?
Am I good or what?
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But Russia today has rediscovered energy and acumen.
And enjoys the well being there for.
There are a couple of hours of aerobics on television every week.
And even in the more traditional areas such as the circus.
The spectators consume huge quantities of invigorating ice cream in mid winter.
While waiting for the performers to finish limbering up.
Before the beginning of the show.
It's curious to note that the director of this circus Mr. Nikulin.
Is a veteran clown himself.
Who today has a predominately administrative function.
Except that he is even better known and much solicited as a film star.
In tragic parts.
A Blomov would watch the show on TV.
If he found the energy to reach the dial.
But nothing can replace the joy of actually being there.
This must remind everybody of themselves.
Ah.
Effort is rewarded.
Not two more.
This is his man.
Even though thisar Изstawan.
victory over seemingly insurmountable difficulties gives a man a sense of
health ask anyage Piglet
And there are other prizes too.
The love and admiration of a woman.
Sensibility is a necessary adjunct to energy.
And Gennady Rozhvestensky rehearses a symphony by the Czech composer Bohuslav Martinou with
the Moscow Philharmonic in the auditorium of the conservatory.
There's a close link between conductor and orchestra.
They were handpicked by him, are known locally as his orchestra, and seem to be playing chamber
music at times. So sensitive is their touch.
So luminous their sonority.
Anton Rubinstein was the director of the conservatory when he refused to play the solo part in Tchaikovsky's
famous first piano concerto.
He saw no future in the work.
But these ancient conflicts are forgotten now, and the airy architecture, helped by
the crystalline acoustics, breathes felicity.
You know what I don't want?
I don't want to be treated like a kid.
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Have you noticed there's a feeling of something in the air?
Celebration of a nation.
Give us a hand.
Celebration of a nation.
Let's make it grand.
Let's lend a hand and show the world how brave we all can be.
All the tears of sweat and tears.
It's our minds and our dreams.
Celebration of a nation.
Give us a hand.
Celebration of a nation.
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The Bolshoi Theater, Moscow's home of opera and ballet.
The excitement runs high towards the end of the intermission at the Bolshoi,
one of the great opera houses of the world.
The imperial box is filled with more plebeian worthies.
Fort Dress is no longer de rigueur.
Yevgeny Nesterenko sings his widely acclaimed Boris Godunov,
a more traditional production than many,
but one which satisfies the nostalgia for the majesty and terrors of yesteryear.
I am the great actor of the nation.
Oh, Lord, you do not want death to be your home.
Burn the ice of the criminal Tsar's throne.
At the end, the audience can be grateful to be living in the present.
Few are those who bridge the centuries by virtue of a timeless humanity.
If Boris seems remote today without Nesterenko,
another man who really lived always seemed to be in the next room.
As present now as he was during his short, gentle life.
The writer Chekhov.
A genius somewhat apart from the others.
He wrote no novels, but he wrote a torrent of short stories
and some plays of outstanding originality.
His eye was comic, his mind tragicomic, his heart achingly human.
Oh, he was capable of outrage, of revolt,
but always his energy was tempered by a tremulous restraint.
He could write about sentimental people without for a moment being sentimental.
He could write of weaklings without condescension
and of nobility without a trace of rhetoric.
Who then was this extraordinary writer
whose voice was much as that of a viola in the orchestra?
Well, this is the general store and grocery shop owned by Chekhov's father
in the city of Taganrog on the Sea of Azov in the south of Russia.
The city where Peter the Great had first used the fleet
to surprise the Turks into defeat and in which Alexander the First had died.
Chekhov was here as a boy between the ages of 11 and 14
and his name appears on the shop register here
on one of those many occasions in which he tended the shop in his father's absence.
And this was the room in which the young Chekhov produced his first amateur theatricals
together with his brothers, his sister and his cousin.
Of his parents he said, my talent comes from my father, my soul from my mother.
Well, between them they seem to have got the mixture just right.
It's very typical of the civic and indeed national pride in this country
that this town of Taganrog has made not only Chekhov's father's grocery shop
but also the tiny cottage in which Chekhov was born into many museums.
And there's a permanent exhibition of his works of clothes and artifacts
in the gymnasium where he went to school.
And this theater, the oldest theater in the south of Russia
seating about 570 people at the moment empty, but it'll be full in about two hours' time.
And it bears his name and there are always at least one of his plays in the repertoire.
I feel very moved by this simply because the first time I ever appeared on any stage in England,
in any country, was in an early version of one of his plays called The Wood Demon.
And I remember the sound of an audience through the curtain.
When you've never appeared in public it's a very frightening one.
But I quickly lost my nerves and began to be drawn into the spirit of the play
as though I'd been there all my life because as I wrote in the guest book here
it is very warm in Chekhov's shadow.
Two hours later an adaptation of a short story of Chekhov's, Dushenka, begins
featuring the actors of Taganrog.
It is about an actress and Chekhov's wife was an actress too.
Dushenka means darling and we can sense a little fun being poked
at the vivid extrovert character of theatrical females.
This one seduced her husband by tapping on the inside of her bedroom window as he passed outside
showing him her face and one shoulder.
In her way she was a perfectionist.
Dushenka!
He was a
He was a
He was a
But when the day of the wedding was coming and it was raining all night
he was always looking at his face with despair.
Everything that was said about the theatre and about the actor Kukin, she repeated.
She was as despicable as he was, she was indifferent to the theatre and the bride.
At rehearsals she interfered with all the other actors and musicians
and if the local papers were unkind she would weep copiously
and rush to the editor's office to complain.
Yes, in her way she was a perfectionist.
She wanted everything to be perfect for herself.
Yes, the sleeping giant is awake and busy.
The media emphasised the difference between us.
Her visit to Russia will both confirm some of the differences
and bring to our notice some surprising similarities.
Surprising only because we forget that we are all human beings
subject to the same fears and the same hopes
and subject to the same worldwide influences.
Five-thirty weeknights.
I like the bosoms of funny people.
It's madness at the mansion.
There's nothing wrong with me looking at gorgeous men.
Just don't frighten them.
I have decided to resign.
There is a god.
The great god of comedy.
Kraus, can we go somewhere private?
In your dreams, lover boy.
I've got to get out more, meet some normal people.
Bye, buddy.
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Well, it's no use speaking here.
I can't possibly make myself heard.
I think that's the idea.
Took the treat out of my wrist
Wiped in the lip of my eye
I got a message, God, I sent a message to you
I'm on the edge of my life
Been traveling this high
Must do it all over again
Unlike the discotheque, this war on Slope
has a winner and a loser.
Kiev Amazons against those of Belgrade.
The first aid people sit there
as a grim warning against being injured.
But the game goes on relentlessly,
as fiercely competitive as anything
in a purely competitive society.
The public sense of fair play
is as easily invoked as anywhere else in the world.
As proof, it's approval
when a yellow card is shown to an offender.
Sport, physical well-being, and mental health
are deemed to be inseparable.
Oblomoff is a thing of the past.
It is not for the light in victory
international.
When I was young, I was taught to tell the truth,
and I expect the truth from my own children.
I've given you my truth.
I don't pretend for a moment it's the whole truth,
nothing but the truth, but it is my truth,
and I think it was worth telling.
More especially since I've been told
what purported to be the truth on this particular subject,
to find out that it was absolutely untrue,
not only untrue, but the most malicious,
destructive kind of propaganda.
It's not my intention to counter propaganda with propaganda.
I made my position on that quite clear at the beginning.
But I only hope that once we must have prejudices,
and alas, we all have them, whether we like it or not,
without knowing it, then at least that these prejudices
be based on fact.
The Russians are subject to the imperatives
of a great social experiment.
This cannot be to everybody's liking.
In fact, we know that it isn't.
But beneath that, there are people just like any other,
and like any other, different from other people,
as all people must be.
And it is possible to have friends in the Soviet Union.
It's possible for this friendship to laugh.
It's possible to argue with them ferociously.
It's possible to laugh with them outrageously.
And it's even possible, believe it or not,
to see eye to eye with them.
Music
Hope you enjoyed the show.
That was the final of Peter Ustinov's Russia.
Next week we take a break from the world around us and pay a tribute to the city of Calgary,
site of the 1988 Winter Olympics.
Play on Channel 9 now for Ripley's Believe It or Not, followed by our Sunday night movie
Gift of Love, A Christmas Story, starring Lee Remick and Angela Lansbury.
Good night.
Before we commence our next program, we wish to advise that the remainder of this evening's
telecast is possibly not suitable for children.
So, from Flapper, Humphrey and all of us here at STW9, it's good night girls and boys, everywhere.
We wish you a Merry Christmas, we wish you a Merry Christmas, we wish you a Merry Christmas
and a Happy New Year.
We wish you a Merry Christmas, we wish you a Merry Christmas, we wish you a Merry Christmas
and a Happy New Year.
From all of us here at Channel 9, best wishes for a happy and a healthy holiday season.
We wish you a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year.
Remember how doctors use hypnosis to help their patients become immune to pain.
Share the musical achievement of a performer who is profoundly deaf.
Journey to Morocco as maidens prepare to participate in an annual marriage festival.
Cling to a cliff with climbers willing to risk their lives to test their courage.
Make a house call with a professional snake charmer in Egypt.
Tap out a tattoo with a New York composer who transforms ordinary objects into extraordinary
instruments.
Take a leap from the top of the world's highest waterfall.
Pass through a Pakistani portal with a gentle giant who is over eight feet tall.
The strange.
The bizarre.
The unexpected.
These are the kinds of subjects a man named Robert L. Ripley challenged us to.
Believe it or not.
All the news that's fit to print is not always to be believed.
That was especially true in Texas where, according to this newspaper, a creature from outer space
came down to earth to pay a visit.
It was a close encounter of the worst kind.
A fraud with unfortunate consequences.
It all started in a good-natured way back in 1897 when a newspaper man decided to play
a joke by inventing a spectacular story that never happened.
Here's what he wrote.
The airship was traveling at about 10 to 12 miles an hour.
It collided with a windmill and went to pieces with a tremendous explosion.
And authority on astronomy gave it as his opinion that the pilot was a native from the
planet Mars.
The pilot's funeral will take place tomorrow.
When that story was first published, the local folks thought it was funny.
But the people who live there now didn't think it was funny after the story was reprinted
in the 1970s.
In this version, the joke was presented as fact.
Proof that an extraterrestrial being had once descended on Texas.
As a result of this report, a swarm of flying saucer fanatics rolled into the small town
like a plague of locusts.
They desecrated the local cemetery and chipped away most of the gravestones.
In fact, they pretty much vandalized the entire town so they could cart away a souvenir of
an event that never happened.
All because of the joke played by a newspaper man over 75 years ago.
The people who live in that little Texas town are still a little scared about any kind of
publicity.
In fact, they have asked us not to reveal the name of their community, so we won't.
That's why we've covered up the part of this historical marker that says, where it is.
The folks there wish they had never heard of the man from outer space and they wish
nobody else had either.
Steven and Tessa have spoken with Onace.
At the Grand New Karenup, our horns are shining bright,
Bowens are priced just right, Big W has got it all,
In Karenup's Grand New Mall, Park the car in door with Charlie,
Fa la la la la la la la la, His air-conditioned fill the trolley,
Fa la la la la la la la la la, There's hundreds of stores at Karenup,
Waiting there just for you, There's lots and lots of lovely things,
Cause Karenup's all Grand New!
Love, love, this is what you're waiting for,
You'll feel it the minute you walk through the door,
Why not catch the show, spin the wheel and away you go,
Love's got all the way, you can live it all 24 hours a day,
You could be the sensation at first, but sensational day of life.
Christmas is coming.
Believe us when we tell you we need your help desperately
for the poor, the homeless, the sick and the destitute.
Please share your good fortune this year by taking gifts of unperishable Christmas food
and unbroken toys to any St. Vincent de Paul Center,
and they're just about everywhere.
Please, help us take the emptiness out of Christmas.
The whole world knows just who you are,
In 200 years you've come so far,
And together just you and me,
That's the way we both can become,
Today's gonna be a day,
You know the feeling and you know the way,
Get a good go and work better with Coca-Cola,
Today I'm gonna make it what you dream come true,
That's not really very hard to do,
Just tell to somebody and say,
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The Royalty of the Arabian Desert
The Royalty of the Arabian Desert
The Royalty of the Arabian Desert
once made their homes and surroundings like this.
Outside there was sand, but inside there was luxury,
fine furnishings and good food.
This is a restaurant in Los Angeles called D'Arm McGreb.
In many ways it recreates the atmosphere of a land
where life is still governed by customs unique to a desert culture.
Among the nomadic people of the desert, for example,
a visitor, friend or enemy is always given shelter, food and drink.
Guests or hosts never insult each other by sitting in a way that exposes the souls of their feet,
and food is eaten without utensils, but only with the right hands.
Some of these traditions are based on religious beliefs,
others are simply examples of remarkable dexterity.
For most people of the West, the romance and mystery of the desert
are synonymous with this book, Arabian Nights.
It's a fantasy world of Sinbad the sailor, Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves,
of magical genies and flying carpets.
In the book, the stories all happened long ago and far away.
However, there are still wonders to be seen today.
Often in the Arabian Nights, marvels are associated with holy places.
Pilgrims who journey to a mosque in Sevhen, Pakistan, expect to meet a living wonder.
Custom requires all who enter to remove their shoes.
The presence of this remarkable pair, nearly two feet long, means the gatekeeper is on duty.
He's Mohammed Alam Chenna, and he's the tallest man on earth.
His height is eight feet, three inches.
Chenna is followed wherever he goes, because people believe his presence confers a blessing upon them.
He finds privacy only at home with his family, where he has to accommodate himself to their dimensions.
All his relatives, including his niece and his cousin, are well within normal range.
Although Chenna is 28 years old, he may still be growing.
Perhaps long ago, it was someone like him who inspired the creation of that legendary character, the Genie of the Arabian Nights.
Exotic portrayals of courtship and romance fill the pages of the Arabian Nights.
Fantastic as they may seem, many are nothing more than accurate reporting.
In Morocco, a young woman of the Ait Hadidou clan prepares for an unusual festival.
She'll be looking for a husband.
Generous amounts of red henna are believed to assure good luck.
Solid silver jewelry demonstrates her family's wealth.
The festival will take place at a remote desert outpost.
Few people live here, but as the appointed time approaches, members of the Ait Hadidou clan begin to gather.
Ultimately, over 20,000 people assemble for an event that occurs once a year, a marriage festival.
Here, when a man takes a woman's hand, he's proposing marriage.
That's why her hand is dyed with henna for good luck.
Withdrawing the hand means the courtship is off.
In much of the Arab world, custom requires women to wait quietly for suitors.
Here, however, for three days, they're encouraged to go looking.
This time, there's no letting go, no rejection.
This couple will marry.
Government officials arrive from the provincial capital to perform marriages for dozens of couples.
Weddings are quick and uncomplicated among the Ait Hadidou, but so is divorce.
By this time next year, many of the newlyweds will be shopping once again in the marriage market.
The festival is over. Soon, the area will be deserted and quiet again.
One bride, however, will stay behind.
Although dressed and ornamented as a young bride, this is not a figure of flesh and blood.
She's promised to the spirit of the rain, and the Ait Hadidou hope her spiritual husband will soon come to claim her.
It has not rained here in four years.
This year's bride will prove attractive enough and the magic strong enough to finally break the drought.
Wondrous feats of magic occur throughout the Arabian Nights.
Today, in a small village on the banks of the Nile, a magician plays a practical role.
Hag Toba is the man people call when they need a snake catcher.
A member of a mystical sect called the Rifeaya, he believes he's magically protected from danger.
The snake the woman described is a species common in this area, a deadly cobra.
A cobra this size is very dangerous and strong.
It gets away.
Hag Toba speaks a special magic language intended to calm the snake.
However, he doesn't depend just on magic.
He gets the cobra to discharge its venom, enough to kill eight men.
Hag Toba doesn't kill the snake.
He'll take it to the desert and let it go free.
That's the way it's always been done, in a land where the traditions and mysteries of the Arabian Nights still live on.
As weapons of war, explosives were first used by the Chinese over 700 years ago.
730 Wednesday night, get ready for some Blue Moon madness.
TV's dynamite duo are back in a moonlighting special.
David and Maddie wrap up the year with an hour of sensational madness in Moonlighting, 730 Wednesday online.
There's a new cop on the beat, a computer cop. Why? Because the state government is equipped to police the most modern crime fighting technology.
There are 3,300 officers in Australia's fastest growing police force and they're now better equipped to help you.
They can now respond more rapidly to crime.
Help us, help you, help others.
It's wet, it's wild and fun for the whole family.
Wet and Wild Family Waterpark is a fantastic place to spend the day for mum, dad and the kids.
Shoot the tubes, ride the screamin' demon, try the four lane super duper surf hill or there's the kiddo slide for toddlers.
Save dollars at the kiosk with our special discount vouchers available to all customers on entry.
Wally Walrus is at Spurts biggest and best family waterpark. See you there soon.
This summer, keep cool naturally with Scaffa's sheepskin.
Our handcrafted custom made cover will make any car look like a limited edition.
And for that custom look at a lower price, try our MultiFit.
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This is the Fuji Super HR film, the world's most developed film.
And this Fuji camera is one of the world's most developed fully automatic cameras.
With both so developed, the results are more natural, true to life pictures than you've ever seen before.
Even when they're being taken by one of the world's most undeveloped photographers.
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For Blasey New Yorkers, the world's tallest building, the World Trade Center, is just part of the skyline.
For a young mountain climber named George Willig, however, it was an irresistible challenge.
You are trespassing on private property.
In May of 1977, as amazed New Yorkers watched, Willig set out to do what no man had done before.
Although police officers attempted to convince him to quit, Willig completed the climb.
110 stories, 1,350 feet above Manhattan.
Willig used gadgets like this when he climbed all the way to the top.
What he did was risky, but he was confident that with these, he could make it.
Here's how they work in the grooves of the building.
Slip in, press, lock.
Slide up, press, lock.
His weight was fully supported by the straps attached to the locking mechanism.
And to the harness that went around him.
He wasn't in any danger, or so he said.
The fact is that his climb was a criminal act.
Not only was he trespassing, he was also endangering the people below.
That's what the police said when they arrested him.
While I was doing it, I was saying to myself, I don't believe it, I'm actually doing this after all this planning.
And I was just, I was here for it.
With a suitable punishment for Willig's crime, the court levied a fine.
One cent for each story climbed.
We had a great time.
For George Willig, the climb was well worth being arrested for.
His determination is something that other climbers would understand.
For them, that's what buildings and mountains are for.
Willig used mechanical aids to conquer a skyscraper.
Other climbers have concentrated on a more dangerous approach to the sport.
In pitting themselves against such formidable obstacles as this,
they rely on nothing but their own muscle and skill.
Except for a safety rope, they use no mechanical aids at all.
They call it free climbing.
The sport doesn't demand brute strength.
It requires skill, agility, and stamina.
And above all, a willingness to accept the challenge because it's there.
This chunk of granite and this man share a common distinction.
Both are legends.
Tony Uniro does what appears to be impossible.
He supports himself by wedging his fingers or his feet into an overhead crack.
The Leonardo's of the sport call such climbing,
finding the most difficult way of getting nowhere.
For one day in the lives of two young women,
this jagged peak provided an unforgettable adventure.
Both were relative newcomers to the sport, making their first major ascent.
The route they took had never before been attempted.
Lynn Hill took the lead.
The rope that would be their only protection was played out by Lynn's climbing partner, Beth Bennett.
Even among more experienced climbers, falls are expected and prepared for.
Unless the fear of falling is overcome, climbers would not be able to concentrate on finding the cracks
and minute protrusions that create the invisible ladder leading to the top.
Oh, oh, oh.
Oh, oh, oh.
Near the summit, the holds are easy to find,
and the final few feet are, in comparison, a walk in the sun.
I made it, Beth! Way to go! Woo!
In reaching the top, both climbers earned the Mountaineer's reward, an undefinable exhilaration.
It stems in part from the knowledge that they've conquered more than the mountain.
They've conquered fear.
Woo-hoo!
Called Angel Falls, they're the highest in the world.
They cascade down a remote Venezuelan peak named Devil's Mountain.
In pursuit of what is called ultra-sport, a group of adventurers set out to reach the top of the falls.
What they were about to do would be spectacular, but potentially fatal.
A parachute jump off the cliff directly over the falls.
Their American leader was skydiver Jerry Bird.
Other jumpers included a lawyer, an airline pilot, and a banker.
Most of them had never been here before.
They had looked at maps and studied photographs, but had never experienced firsthand the awesome grandeur of the place itself.
The plan was simple.
After a 10-second free fall, their parachutes would open and they would glide safely to Earth.
After plummeting at speeds approaching 100 miles an hour, the lead jumper glided toward the Earth.
The plan had worked perfectly.
It was up to the others to follow where he had led.
Then, the plane shot down with a
wooden
subframe board.
It was built to support the Russian
To get from the top of the falls to the landing zone they had prepared took about four minutes
and the courage to risk their lives.
Just as they had planned it came off without a hitch.
Almost.
A Manhattan store once sold 35 ounce packages of ice chipped from icebergs for seven dollars
each.
Believe it or not.
The builders labors Mrs. Simpson, the Ayatollah Mrs. Simpson.
The customers are sharp.
She folds in here and grills me a bally reading from Ronald Reagan to my Patrick Cash.
So to make sure I can talk about more than just sausages I make it a business to watch
National 9 News.
National 9 News.
That's what I want.
Christmas is coming.
It's almost here.
So celebrate with Bones this year.
The store's full of magic, surprises too and gifts for everyone who's special to you.
Give your favorite cricket fan the Bradman albums and music buffs the Sound 4 car super
pack.
The film lovers Toshiba's V86 VCR and the brilliant Commodore Amiga 500 computer.
So hurry into Bones.
We're full of Christmas cheer and we'd be very happy if you'd celebrate with us this
year.
From Disney and Joe Camp comes an old friend in an all new adventure.
It's Benji facing his greatest challenge ever.
He's fighting for the lives of four cougar cubs in an unforgettable santa of courage
and heroism.
This summer the internationally famous canine superstar is back in a film you'll want to
share with your family and friends.
Benji the hunted.
Starts 26th of December.
Cine Center, Metro Cinema, Village Cinema, Essex Street Cinema and New Oxford Cinema.
In 1888 George Parker invented the first in a series of unique Christmas gifts.
So give a Parker pen from five dollars to over five thousand dollars.
It's the pen that's given the world so much.
No matter how much more than enough you've had to eat there's one more thing you really
should leave room for.
Gentle effective Eno.
It helps take away the.
The eyes are hot.
So is the mouth and the nose.
You're looking at my portrait produced by the heat being emitted from my skin and by
my breath.
It may seem bizarre but to a doctor here in Los Angeles at the Academy of Neuromuscular
Thermography such images provide important diagnostic information.
This is a thermography machine.
The camera is heat sensitive.
It can measure minute differences in skin temperature and project those differences
through this television monitor.
By looking at the pictures doctors can see what they could never see before.
Real evidence of nerve irritation.
One of the basic causes of chronic problems like lower back pain.
This is a normal back and the same back transformed into a thermogram.
The heat being emitted is symmetrical balanced on both sides an indication of healthy normality.
This is a portrait of a patient in pain and the thermogram that provides a road map to
the exact center of that otherwise invisible pain.
The hot spot of intense red.
As a diagnostic tool machines like this one permit doctors to see what ordinary x-rays
can't see.
The centers of pain created by nerve irritation and by being able to see them doctors improve
their chances of being able to do something about them.
No machine however can do what's being done at this hospital by Dr. Alexander Levitan
of the University of Minnesota.
For 14 years he has used hypnosis to help patients prevent pain.
Think about a lovely place you'd like to be.
Perhaps a beautiful sunny beach with a bright fluffy clouds overhead.
While you're relaxing I invite you now to focus on your hand.
That's good.
You'll feel me touch you of course but you need have no discomfort, no pain, no swelling,
no bleeding, nothing that need nothing.
By learning how to enter a hypnotic state patients can exercise incredible control over their
bodies.
Not only can they become immune to pain they can even prevent the flow of blood.
I'll take that needle out because your mind knows how to do what it needs to do.
Mrs. Gloria Crone is one of Dr. Levitan's patients.
She's a supervisor for the Minnesota State Department of Employment.
When major abdominal surgery was prescribed for her condition she was determined not to
have an anesthetic during the operation.
To prepare for the experience she worked with Dr. Levitan to develop the techniques of self
hypnosis.
It starts with relaxation so what you do is you just have to feel like a rag doll and
you just let everything go and you just totally relax and then you just visualize that you
have a network of nerves and you visualize that these nerves are coming through your
hand and up into your arm and into your brain and then in your brain you visualize a switchboard.
With all the switches that control all the parts of your body that would cause pain and
I could do that with any other part of my body.
On the day of her surgery Mrs. Crone entered a self induced hypnotic state before she arrived
at the hospital.
In her mind she had already visualized and rehearsed the procedure.
When you get to the hospital it's just like you've already done this before so you just
you are in a hypnotic state when you walk through the door and by the time that I got
into the operating room and Dr. Levitan was right there then it's just a matter of taking
three deep breaths and relaxing even further.
Just enjoying the beautiful country, the smells of all of your favorite flowers.
During the operation Dr. Levitan functioned as a reassuring coach.
In the preceding weeks he and Mrs. Crone have gone over every detail of the procedure.
As Dr. Harvey Friedenson began the surgery Mrs. Crone was conscious, comfortable and
completely free of pain.
As the procedure entered its second hour Mrs. Crone maintained mental control over her body.
Suddenly the unexpected happened.
The pressure exerted by the surgeon in moving her lower intestine momentarily caused her
discomfort.
She was given an anesthetic.
After a few minutes the anesthetic was withdrawn.
You're doing well.
If you wish to you can even let yourself go deeper almost like going down an elevator
from the 10th floor.
At the end of the two hour operation Mrs. Crone was resting comfortably.
It's an amazing thing to me we don't do this too often and her tolerance for pain and discomfort
was quite amazing.
That points to the fact that hypnosis is probably an under recognized form of pain relief both
in obstetrics and gynecology and other fields.
Even the nurses said they didn't know why they had me in the recovery room because I
was wide awake all the while and when I went up to my room they were going to give me their
standard liquid meal for people who have operation but Dr. Levitan came up and he said to take
this away I can have meat and potatoes and everything right away.
They argued with him they said well she's just had an operation he said but she didn't
have anesthesia and she's perfectly alright.
But he also told me that except for hospital policy he said you know what you could really
blow their mind to walk up to your room but they wouldn't let me.
To honor her deceased husband a widow built a 70 room California mansion in which no one
has ever lived.
Believe it or not.
Thursday 730 a desperate search for the truth.
He was arrested for murdering our landlord.
Well we'd like you to represent him.
Matlock must piece together a bizarre case.
Let me see if I can get you out of here.
This time of year this is no place for samples.
Was it provocation or a hideous violation?
The capes fingerprints are all over the letter.
I outmaneuver people to get ahead in business.
A Christmas crisis for Matlock.
Thursday 730 online.
Oh Patrice.
Remember?
Of course I remember.
Patrice.
The man worth remembering.
If you got the business I got the sign.
But how would you find me?
I can give you a function that five star touch.
But how would you find me?
I can print these for you but how would you find me?
Your business will look great with my office design but how would you find me?
It's easy.
Open up yellow pages.
We're waiting for your call.
Each other come yellow pages.
The book that's got it all.
Hello yellow pages every time.
And nothing, nothing for Christmas.
To ask put your hand out and ask for food is a, is a very important thing.
To ask put your hand out and ask for food is a, is a sick feeling inside.
And so many people break down and cry.
I'm begging, pleading, hustling.
Whatever I can do.
Whatever I can get.
Please give.
We need food, toys and new clothing desperately.
Send your gift to Father Brian's Christmas Appeal.
A very special Christmas for the Special Olympics.
Some of the world's top recording stars have joined forces to record a Christmas album
like no other.
Brian Adams, Bon Jovi, The Eurythmics, Whitney Houston, Madonna, John Cougar, Mellencamp,
Alison Moyet, Stevie Nicks, The Pointer Sisters, The Pretenders, Run DMC, Bob Seeger, Bruce
Springsteen, Sting and U2 perform a mix of traditional and original Christmas songs.
There couldn't be a better gift.
A very special Christmas with proceeds going to the Special Olympics.
These are probably the most famous four notes in musical history.
The opening measure of a symphony written by Ludwig van Beethoven when he was 38 years
old.
The Fifth Symphony.
When he wrote that, Beethoven was already almost totally deaf, which is why some musicologists
and romantic biographers interpret this as a desperate cry for help and insist on knocking
at a door that was being closed on Beethoven forever.
Less romantic historians, however, allow the genius of Beethoven to speak for itself without
embellishment.
Although nothing can add to or subtract from Beethoven's achievements, these famous four
notes have a rather ordinary source.
They are still heard today as they were when Beethoven was a boy in the woods and meadows
of his native Germany performed by the original composer.
The opening notes of Beethoven's famous Fifth Symphony are, in fact, the mating call of
an ordinary bird, the emmerling.
Today at London's Royal Academy of Music, an extraordinary story is unfolding.
Eighteen-year-old Evelyn Glennie is studying to become a professional musician despite
the fact that she is profoundly deaf.
She cannot hear the music she studies.
For instruction, she has to read her teacher's lips.
Once she's found the correct tone, she has to remember the exact touch she used.
When Evelyn applied here, many of the faculty doubted a deaf person could succeed as a professional
musician, yet she is determined to master all the percussion instruments.
That's much better.
One in the entire first section, all pianissimo.
Try the whole thing because it really will, I think, be much, much more effective.
You just learn to distinguish all these different vibrations.
For instance, if I play from about here downwards on the marimba, I would feel it maybe from
my waist downwards.
And if I play further up with harder sticks, I would feel it through the stick onto the
tips of my fingers and maybe on my face and here.
You just learn to distinguish these noises.
As a small child, Evelyn showed great musical promise.
By the age of 12, however, it was clear she was losing her hearing.
A doctor explained the condition was incurable.
He said that, oh well, I'm afraid everyone has just got to go to school for the deaf
in Aberdeen and that sort of she wouldn't be able to play music anymore.
And that was it.
It was my father who actually said, well, as long as you're managing, you just keep
on the way you're going.
And I just accepted that.
Stay at an ordinary school.
Keep playing music.
I mean, you'll just come to the problems when you come to them and you'll just deal with
them when you come to them.
At London's Festival Hall, a small but discriminating audience has gathered to hear Evelyn perform.
If her performance meets with their approval, it will be an important step toward a professional
career.
Ladies and gentlemen, will you welcome Evelyn Glenney.
Although she cannot hear their applause, in her silent world, it is a joyful noise.
In New York City, a percussionist named David Van Teegum makes music wherever he goes.
Despite appearances, Van Teegum is a serious composer.
His works have been performed in Carnegie Hall and at the Olympic Arts Festival.
The focus of his art is transforming ordinary sounds into music.
Van Teegum's accumulated instruments are the basis for a unique performance.
According to a pre-recorded rhythm track, he begins by playing a plastic film can.
Van Teegum is able to extract a subtle mix of sounds from a half-full vodka bottle.
His music is improvisational and impulsive.
As he uses everyday objects, Van Teegum calls his performances the soundtracks of his life.
It was Crossfire's biggest night yet and Kate was holding her breath.
Two questions away from a $5,000 education grant.
Mrs. As Good As A Mile.
Kate didn't miss, she was right on target and won over $10,000 in prizes.
Someone's gonna wake me up in a minute and I'm gonna find this was all a dream.
More dreams come true on Crossfire Monday online.
We're coming to, coming to get you.
Coming to, coming to get you.
The Kiwis are coming, they reckon they can hit.
The Fencingham Hedges World Series Cup hits the wacker.
Sri Lankans think they're tough, they say, they can drop a ball a bit.
Australia and Sri Lanka January 2, Australia and New Zealand in a day-night clash, January
3, the World Series Cup hits the wacker.
The Fencingham Hedges World Series Cup hits the wacker.
The Fencingham Hedges World Series Cup hits the wacker.
The Fencingham Hedges World Series Cup hits the wacker.
The Fencingham Hedges World Series Cup hits the wacker.
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There's one law that no one can break and get away with it.
The law of gravity.
What goes up must come down.
No one has to enforce that law.
But in Italy, checking up on it is a regular occupation.
The Italian city of Pisa is famous for its leaning tower, which attracts tourists from
around the world.
Someday though, it could topple over.
In order to have advance warning of such a calamity, scientists from the University of
Pisa make frequent checks to see how much further the tower has tipped.
No one knows exactly what went wrong, but the tower began leaning before it was finished
over 700 years ago.
Months may pass without the angle increasing, then it will slip a fraction of a millimeter.
To prevent the law of gravity from having its ultimate effect, the city has solicited
complex engineering proposals, but little has been done.
School children around the world have tried to help with ingenious solutions.
The collapse would be disastrous, but so would a fully upright tower.
That would mean the end of visits by millions of tourists annually.
Tomorrow night, it's great laughs with head of the class and my sister Sam, but stay on
mine now for Lee Remick and Angela Lansbury in Gift of Love, A Christmas Story.
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Hi everybody, I'd like to wish you a very safe and happy Christmas, and have lots of
fun in our bicentennial year.
and welcome to Channel 9 Sunday Night at the Movies.
Tonight, Lee Remick and Murder, She Wrote's Angela Lansbury star in the touching story,
The Gift of Love, A Christmas Story.
This is the story of a search for simple values.
If we should have the qualities of a fable, we might remember that for centuries the fable
has been the storehouse for all those things that we know in our hearts to be true.
Merry Christmas.
Merry Christmas.
That's the only contribution we've had all morning.
I think we're wasting our time here.
Well, let's try out at the new shopping mall.
All right.
Your
Good morning, Rose.
Merry Christmas.
I'm so glad you're here, Mrs. Broderick.
There's a terrible rumor making the rounds.
Oh?
What's this terrible rumor?
They say the store's closing, that today's our last day.
Well, that's simply not true.
I'm relieved to hear it.
Thanks.
Right.
I'll see you later.
There's a small bonus in your pay envelope.
I wish it were more.
Excuse me.
Jenna, could you just give me a minute?
How am I supposed to find another job this close to Christmas?
Chris, I can't afford you.
Then maybe you ought to close the place down.
I may have to.
What's going on?
I just had to let Chris go, some of the others too.
Stop you spreading a rumor downstairs saying the store's closing.
We are in bad shape, Jenna.
You've seen what it's like down there.
Well, we've had slow Christmases before.
We always cut our losses with the New Year's sale.
After the first of the year, everything would be better.
We may not make it till the first of the year.
Every day we stay open, we're losing money.
Did you see the ad we're preparing for tomorrow's paper?
Come to Brodrick's for an old fashioned Christmas.
That's been our whole problem.
We've been too old fashioned.
We haven't kept up with the times.
I think the sad really can do it.
You might even have to put on extra help.
You better get that Santa Claus back in.
He'll be a rum on toys.
Jenna, if you're not hearing me.
Is there more than you're saying?
No.
I, uh, look, I have to get downstairs.
OK.
I'll be in my office.
What's going on here?
She started it.
Dorothy Brodrick, do you mind telling me
what this argument is all about?
Justin was picking on my little brother.
He started it.
Called me a dummy.
He isn't a dummy.
He's always showing off because he's in the gifted child program.
There'll be no more fighting.
If I hear of any more fighting, you're
both going to get extra homework.
Now shake hands and go on home.
Come on, kids.
We can all go home.
You just got to start sticking up for yourself, Mike.
Why?
Because I've got to start getting into fights.
Every day I go home with a black eye or a bloody nose,
Mom goes crazy.
She says I'm not feminine.
I think she hates me.
I can't stand the sight of blood.
Nobody's crazy about the sight of blood,
but nobody's crazy about a coward either.
Not a coward.
Gifted child.
Am I supposed to excel in everything?
There's nothing you can do for me.
Well, then I guess that's it.
Bye.
Bye.
Bye.
Bye.
Mr. Broderick.
Let's start to shut down.
I just can't believe it.
After so many years, your father, your grandfather.
I know.
Believe me, I know.
Shall I call Mrs. Broderick in?
No.
I don't know how to tell her.
I don't know how to tell her.
Bye, Grandma.
Hello, you two.
Something smells good, Grandma.
My Christmas pudding.
What did we eat at?
Christmas dinner.
What are you doing to it?
I'm stirring in a bit of sherry.
It's an old English custom.
Will sherry make you drunk?
Well, if you got too much of it, it might make you a bit tipsy.
What's this I hear about you being in another fight?
How did you hear about that?
Well, Dustin's mother called looking for your mother.
What was it about this time?
Me.
Oh.
Are you showing off your superior intelligence again?
Yes, ma'am.
It seems to me, Michael, it's time you learned to take care of yourself.
No, you two.
You guys need to zone my fighting for me.
Oh, well, maybe I might be able to give you a pointer or two.
Here.
Come on, now, make a fist.
Two of them.
Now, be alert.
Put your guard up, Michael.
Watch or she's going to surprise you.
Come on, Grandma wouldn't hit me.
Oh, I most certainly shall if you don't try to protect yourself now.
You wouldn't.
Oh, hey.
Grandma, that's not nice.
Well, put up your guard or I'll let you have it again.
That's the boy.
Good.
That's wonderful.
Good, good.
Now, put a little bit more sift into it.
Now, come on.
Oh, harder, harder, harder, harder.
That's the boy.
What's the matter, Grandma?
Well, I'm not quite sure.
Something hurts like a holy calf.
Oh, no.
Oh, no.
Oh, no.
Oh, no.
Oh, no.
Oh, no.
Oh, no.
Oh, no.
Oh, no.
Oh, no.
Oh, no.
Oh, no.
Oh, no.
Oh, no.
Oh, no.
Oh, no.
Oh, no.
Something hurts like a holy curse.
Watch your language in front of young children.
Oh, I forgot.
Here, you two, give me your hands.
Are you all right, Grandma?
I think we should try to head for the stairs.
We got to stay down for a while.
Are you dying, Grandma?
God, I hope not.
You tell me one thing or I'll refuse to die in the kitchen.
Oh, no.
Oh, no.
Oh, no.
Oh, no.
Oh, no.
I'm so glad you're okay.
I'm sorry.
Powers? Neil?
In here, Mrs. Broderick.
Where's Neil?
He's down on the first floor.
What's going on here?
I tried to tell you this morning.
It's all over, honey.
What do you mean?
You're closing the store? I don't believe it.
I had to.
Why? We could have gone to the bank.
I mean, we could have done something to keep on going.
I have been to the bank. I have talked to the lawyers.
I have done everything I know how to do.
Oh, well, you never told me any of that.
I thought that I could pull this out without...
Oh, so you just went ahead and made a decision like this
without even talking to me.
I should have.
You think you're alone here? I mean, this place is...
It's not just you.
This store is our life.
Forget the store.
We have more than that.
I wonder.
Now, hold on.
Well, what do you expect me to think when you pull a thing like this?
Do you think it doesn't hurt me to give up?
I didn't want to hurt you.
You have.
Janet, wait.
I can't be with you right now. I have to...
I'll walk home.
The escalating road toll is crippling our society.
This year, the state government spent $179 million on the police force.
Much of that money was used to prevent road deaths.
Still, more money was spent on the high cost of hospital and medical treatment for road victims.
This site makes a police officer angry.
It's another senseless waste of life.
There is no joy in this sort of police work, but it's a job which has to be done.
Cardiac arrest over here.
Good evening, sir. Could you please take that over to the vehicle?
Good evening, sir. Would you mind seeing me inside the road?
The aim is to save lives. Perhaps it could be your life.
Think carefully.
And don't you become the victim of the most common causes of road death, speed and alcohol.
If you cop a ticket, it's a fair cop.
Help us.
Help you.
Help others.
Are you ready?
I'm starving.
Are you red, red, ready?
Mmm.
Yum.
Are you ready?
Yeah.
Red, ready right now.
Cause you can take it as took.
We're ready to cook.
Australia's best tasting chook.
We're ready.
Red, red, red, red, red, red, red, red rooster.
Australia, your chicken is ready.
The Larry Pickering calendar for 88.
Definitely the most tasteless yet.
See Fennec as his victims have never seen him.
See what a radical celibate does to remain radical.
Oh Larry.
See what John Elliott's got that John Howard wants.
See why Edward is still single.
See why Paul Keating is the housewife's friend.
And see Ivan Landell play tennis with two balls.
All in the most tasteless calendar of them all.
The Larry Pickering calendar for 88.
Starring the radical celibate.
Who can she be?
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