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Scanning from the left seat, Pilot Pat Evans spotted a brilliant flash on a hilltop 7,900 feet below. A pair of fighter planes wheeled in, tossing bombs into the jungle. Then a string of helicopters settled to earth and squads of infantrymen leaped from them, firing as they ran. Evans shrugged. "They are fighting like hell down there," he said, "and for us it is business as usual...
After a brief flash of brilliance in the middle of the race, Colburn settled back into sixth place. He revived in the final mile, however, to overtake sophomore Jon Enscoe and challenge Tom Spengler. But Spengler glanced back with about 600 yards to go and the redhead's attempt to "sneak up on him" was foiled when his teammate picked up the pace and clinched fourth place by two seconds. Enscoe finished behind Colburn in sixth place with a personal best time...
...this young man," he says, "the influence of a composite of the work of other great artists from Canaletto to Boudin, but it has a flash of the genius that was to come in later years, and sometimes these early flashes of genius are the man's greatest." Be sides, he adds practically, "there has not been as great an impressionist painting available since World War II. The really great Renoirs are all in museums or foundations...
...sound effects collide in the ear. Other TV variety shows can be dropped intact onto a theater or nightclub stage, but Laugh-In would be impossible anywhere but on television. For one thing, each show is stitched together from about 350 snippets of video tape. Some of them-a flash of graffiti, for example, or a mugging face-last only an eighth of a second. Executive Producer George Schlatter calls this "energy film," a technique that gives a kind of booster burst of speed to the show. Explains Dick Martin: "Nobody's going to appreciate everything on our show...
Many things can happen in John Earth's funhouse, but getting lost is not likely to be one of them. Whenever the rubber spiders and indiscreetly aimed jets of air become too threatening, the lights suddenly flash on and Proprietor Barth himself ambles in and starts explaining about the machinery. Those who take their funhouses seriously may grow confused and exasperated. But readers of The Sot-Weed Factor and Giles Goat-Boy are familiar with Barth's impulses toward farce, his intellectual mobility, shaggy doggerel and merry nihilism. These people are apt to accept the clever gimmickry...