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...film gives nothing of the doubts or, for that matter, the certainties that must torture a man obsessed by God. Dillman rolls his eyes upward now and then in the manner of cinema divines and photographers' models in spaghetti ads, but otherwise he shows no evidence of sainthood. He floats through the film wearing at all times a smile of seraphic boobery, and his followers grin constantly at whatever faces them: another actor, a tree, a blank wall...
...Mexico and bring normal rain to the high plains. But this year the high-pressure area stuck stubbornly over the Rockies during June and the first half of July. The dry, sunny weather that it brought dried out and heated the earth's surface, and hot air rising upward intensified the high-pressure area and its drought-producing effects. The moist winds from the Gulf were deflected to the Eastern seaboard...
Next morning, after dressing in the chilling air, they had their breakfast and, carrying light packs, traversed upward through thickets of aspen and pine and cedar and wild flowers. Now and then they recrossed the stream and stopped to drink, and after an hour, high in the mountain, they found the waterfall that fed the stream below. Clambering across a rockslide, they tucked some beer into the water, built a fire and cooked their lunch. When they returned to their camp, they stripped and plunged with agonized cries into a lake cold enough to recall Joyce's scrotum-tightening...
...hawk-nosed, bearded officer in an absurd helmet gives a wild salute in a marvelous parody of Prussian militarism. A bulbous official with his face painted red rides by on the most overburdened of horses. His face is turned upward, his eyes blind to the two natives trudging at the horse's side...
...airplane that hits this invisible turbulence would be slammed upward and downward as if it had flown through a miniature thunderstorm. A light airplane flying through the core itself, says Mc-Gowan, "can experience loading conditions that exceed the design ultimate load factors," i.e., can be torn apart. Although no supersonic airliners are flying yet, McGowan looks forward to their take-off with some trepidation. Their wake will be strong enough to knock the wings off a good-sized commercial airliner...