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...production"; a nimble-handed move was a "sleight." The masters of all these effects and sleights had vanished. Houdini, who could get out of a steel coffin, could not escape from his wooden one; Cardini, who commanded the attention of a jammed theater with nothing but a deck of cards and a pack of cigarettes; Thurston, Dunninger, Blackstone, Dante: all, all were gone or retired. People wanted facts, not illusions; it was the age of the scientist, not the alchemist...
...work on seven more books. He is also teaching at the U.C. Medical Center in San Francisco, lecturing, traveling and organizing symposia on the nature of consciousness. A bachelor, he tools around in a hot orange Porsche 914 and lives on a Los Altos mini-estate complete with sun deck and swimming pool. He takes no time out for meditation. "I'm not convinced it's good for you, or more personally, that it's good for me," he says. He is far more interested in pursuing his electronic studies of brain activity, the kind of work...
...Willie comes on obediently and says, "Hey." They probably didn't market it right, either, but in any event, a friend of mine last year discovered a bunch of wild-eyed autograph-seeking juveniles around a pink Cadillac with California plates parked near Shea Stadium with a tape-deck inside and some tapes on it. The top tape was called "Sounds of Erotic Love." My friend claimed the car was Willie...
...gadgets to keep Haggard occupied for years. He is happiest, however, tinkering with his $50,000 model railroad: 250 freight cars, 35 locomotives and a scale replica of the Bakersfield terminal. Its main line is a kid's dream that runs through the living room, across the sun deck, through the sauna, a bathroom and a bedroom, and then out onto a trestle high above the rear patio...
...weak mixed drinks (45 and 75 cents respectively) and free salted peanuts in copious quantities. Since then, they have jacked up the prices, discontinued the peanuts, and added free music. Since my fondest memories of the place involve hearing drunken friends recite "The boy stood on the burning deck, eating peanuts by the peck. . .," I don't like any of the changes. It is too expensive to get drunk, there is no occasion to recite Peanuts by the Peck, and if there were the band would be making too much noise to hear the drunks...