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...side of the Song Ba, meanwhile, the caravan began to pile up on itself. A jumble of people, motor scooters, trucks, buses and cars congealed until 5,000 vehicles turned the riverbank into a gigantic parking lot. Then Communist mortar and rocket fire slammed into the riverside, setting vehicles alight in a fire that 24 hours later was still raging. In the end, the 50,000 who had crossed the river pushed on to the sea in reckless disregard of the danger from the Communists. But continued sniping on the road by the Viet Cong made it impossible for more...
...responsible for marshalling and arranging all my thoughts, for it simply did not know enough...I began to suspect that thought, which I had always before looked on as a cart horse to be driven, whipped, and plodding between shafts, might be really a Pegasus, so suddenly did it alight beside me from places I had no knowledge...
...downing 300 goldfish, 75 more than the previous oldie goldie. Rick Sumner, 14, polished off 20 doughnuts in 9 min. 59 sec., beating the old record of 20 in 15 min. John McKinney, 17, and Rick Sackett, 25, each crammed 52 cigars into their mouths and kept them alight for 30 sec. (v. the previous record of 28 lit for 30 sec.). Another titlist, Scott Case, managed to smoke 110 cigarettes simultaneously for 30 sec. without endangering his health. Kevin Farrell and Corey Fletcher each stood on one leg for 7½ hr., 60 min. longer than anyone ever...
...Marlowe is half-knight and half-clown, struggling against a city's corrupting power. He constantly mumbles to himself to convince himself that he's really a private eye, like someone else would pinch himself to make sure he's not dreaming. Marlowe's Los Angeles is constantly alight with all-night supermarkets, all-night traffic, all-night venality. He is awake to the phonies and moral bankrupts around him, and the audience sees L.A. as he sees it. The restless, light-drenched photography (by Altman veteran Vilmos Zsigmond), and nervy editing and soundtrack express the visual and aural equivalents...
...refracted pattern of outsiders with faces and noses pressed against the glass, waving to attract his attention. But for all the loud confusion, when tired, old Charlie Chaplin made his way out at last, shielded by policemen and supported by his wife and son-in-law, his face was alight with pleasure...