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...years since the release of the Merian C. Cooper classic King Kong, time has taken its toll on the beast and his splendid art-deco perch. The Empire State Building is no longer the world's tallest building, and King Kong is not the young buck he used to be either. This month, to celebrate the film's 50th anniversary, these two critical elements of the beauty-and-the-beast tale were reunited: a ten-story, 3,000-lb. inflatable Kong (at 84 ft., more than 30 ft. taller than the original) was hoisted a quarter-mile...
...read out to them. All they will see of that historic moment will be the King's shoes and socks, the Queen's skirt swishing this way and that as they pace off their anger and frustration. For the closest the observers can get is a perch on a staircase with the eyes at the level of the royal bedroom's floorboards. That is fine. In fact, for Director Scola's purposes it is the perfect finish to a masterly film, at once superbly intelligent and strangely poignant. He employed the same ironic device...
...former Vice President goes ice fishing and poses with a puny perch dangling from his line. A 68-year-old Senator dons athletic shorts and runs a 60-yd. dash in a San Francisco track meet. A man who once orbited the earth turns up at a cattle show and enters a contest to guess the weight of a black Simmental bull; first prize is a dozen vials of bull semen...
Peering into the heavens from its orbital perch, the $180 million robot observatory "sees" infrared light, or heat waves, a form of radiation totally beyond the range of human vision (and that of most living things other than rattlesnakes). Even cold objects radiate some heat, making it possible for IRAS to sense celestial bodies that are all but undetectable in other parts of the electromagnetic spectrum...
...certain satisfaction in stalking their victims. But this is a much more technically oriented crime; the killer does not perceive as clearly the actual death of his victims." Who gets killed appears to be a matter of indifference. Even gunmen like Charles Whitman, who killed 16 people from his perch in a Texas tower in 1966, have more direct contact with their victims. Rarely have the time and distance between murderous act and deadly result been greater. Anonymous poisoning is a remote-control crime, allowing the killer to feel omnipotent by rendering the public terrifyingly powerless...