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...flame danced on the point of the Space Needle at twilight on opening night last week, President Gandy looked out through his office window. Said he: "There's nothing there that hasn't meant at least a quart of blood drawn, and in some cases a bucket. But to tell you the truth, I'm amazed at the whole thing." A lot of other people will...
...flight and the waist of the car is slightly indented in Coke-bottle fashion-a design feature previously used only on supersonic jet fighters. Inside, reflecting Egbert's love of flying, the Avanti resembles a plush airplane with instruments set in neat, easy-to-reach groups, has two bucket seats in front, and a bucket bench for two in the rear. With a fiber-glass body mounted on a steel chassis and an engine of 300 h.p. or more, the Avanti will go from standing to 60 m.p.h. in a scant 6.7 sec.-a performance rivaling that...
...electronic trap that cops use to nab speeders. Fastest of all were the Class AA dragsters, driven by such seasoned campaigners as 28-year-old Pete Robinson, an auto-parts manufacturer from Atlanta, who is the current U.S. champion. Stripped to the bare essentials-a naked steel frame, a bucket seat, racing tires, a "go pedal," and sometimes a drag parachute for braking-the "Double A-ers" are such specialized machines that they cannot even get started without a push...
...buttoned collar and huge bow tie. His métier is sick slapstick. He gets laughs by biting off a neighbor's hangnail or hitting an old lady with a custard pie-not in the face, but up under her arm, as if the pie were a small bucket...
...that they aren't different, and much of this movie's rage seems wasted. In the end, you can take The Savage Eye's values, or you can leave them. It certainly makes no attempt to persuade you of them. You can condemn the West Coast as a bucket of obscene crabs--the way The Savage Eye does--or you can see its people as men trying to make the best of a new order of things. Either way of looking at them is valid, and that is why The Savage Eye seems so unfair...