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...when Cactus settled down and writes a good song, oh what a monster! Witness "Restrictions," the title cut and perhaps the best song recorded by an American group this year. Reminiscent of something the Vanilla Fudge at their faster (and better) moments might have done, "Restrictions" is full of tight harmonies, clever and absorbing changes in rhythm and structure, and strong instrumentation. The song barrels along, never letting up for over six minutes, and when it's all over you wonder if you haven't been run over by the Long Island Railroad...
...built as planned, it will look almost roly-poly-890 ft. long, 170 ft. wide, but drawing only 39 ft. fully loaded. At this draft, it can slide easily into most major ports, while still carrying 800,000 bbl. of oil. Much more maneuverable in narrow channels than the monster tankers (thanks to powerful "thruster" propellers set at right angles to its bow and stern), the ship will include several safeguards against oil leaks. One drawback: it will cost at least 8% more to build than a conventional tanker of the same capacity...
Hughes, and such solid character actors as Peter Gushing (the house Doctor Frankenstein, Sherlock Holmes) and Christopher Lee (Dracula, the Frankenstein monster, Fu Manchu...
...plays it for funny and painful surprises. More like Little Lulu than Little Nell, her 10-year-old heroine Lucia refuses to let grownups run and ruin her life. When her parents fight, and Lucia is sent to live with a saurian grandmother in Virginia, she battles the old monster to a standstill. "You're a big mean bug," she screams, "and I sink your mean mud head about ten million feet into the ground!" Then with all her force she struggles to reconstitute the family she needs...
Eiseley has met strange creatures in the night country, and he tells marvelous stories about them. He tells of a farmer who has a monster living in the well beneath his house, and a novelist who offered a toast to the triumph of mankind, unaware that he was being observed by a bemused rat. He tells of an old rancher who shocked his family by keeping the skeleton of his sister, murdered by Apaches, in the china closet. And of the lonely bachelor who had found and fallen in love with what he believed to be a petrified woman...