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...quarter of the nation's power needs. Such figures have re-energized the manufacturers of wind-power equipment and attracted the interest of foreign competitors. Utilities are conducting wind surveys and starting pilot projects. And a new breed of wildcatter is scurrying to buy up wind rights -- licenses to erect what may be the oil wells of tomorrow...
What is longer than the fully erect ego of a movie director determined to make a "statement"? The patience, obviously, of movie executives determined to indulge his or her imperious auteurship. And the inordinate length of the movies now trying our patience. The good (JFK) would be better, the so-so (The Prince of Tides) greatly improved, and the bad (Hook) less tiresome if everyone would learn to get on and off in under two hours. Give us a break, guys...
...evening: Was the phone she used to call the police a touch-tone? If so, were the buttons in the receiver or the handset? Why do you now say that you fell when you were grabbed by Smith while you previously told the police that you 'stumbled'? Exactly how erect was Smith's penis...
Schuller's great distinction, perhaps, is not just that he was a pioneer of the drive-in church (and his sermons are still broadcast, via a wide-screen TV, to overflow parishioners in the parking lot outside), nor that he has managed to erect a glittering monument to his "Be-Happy Attitudes," but rather that he has gathered a huge nationwide following out of preaching what is in effect Californianism. For if you look at his books (Your Future Is Your Friend, Success Is Never Ending, Failure Is Never Final), and if you walk around his church, as airy...
...still chastised in the press for another project -- a series of silly , books, done with a cartoonist, called Wicked Willie. Willie is an erect penis. Until the publication in Britain of Toujours Provence, the author had pretty much slipped under the critical net and tended to think of reviewers as tolerant folk like himself. But second time around, his detractors were ready. The Spectator magazine published not one but two critiques upbraiding Mayle for barging into print after only three or four years in the area, using occasional French phrases and being arch. One account even disparages Provencal cooking ("never...