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...dust and fire. A girl lies languidly back on a bed. Dissolve to a submerged submarine shooting a torpedo. The H-bomb goes off. Motorcycles race through mud. A biplane crashes into a lake. That famous Tacoma bridge whips in the wind and collapses. The Hindenburg bursts into flame. A ship sinks. A firing squad fires. Bodies hang upside down in Rome. Bruce Conner could be interpreted as a kind of Cotton Mather XXIII. His point seems to be that if you start with a beautiful nude, death and violent destruction soon follow...
...chaparral crackled and clacked like desiccated bones in a bowl. Then, just before dawn one day last week, the nightmare that Angelenos have well learned to dread happened again. The brush in the hills, ignited by power lines torn to the ground by whistling winds, exploded into flame. With incredible speed, fire raced through the white-collar suburbs of Los Angeles-into Glendale and Burbank, Eagle Rock, and Verdugo City and Pasadena...
...there was some flame amid the smoke. Johnson and Bobby have never been cronies. Both are sensitive, stubborn, suspicious men. Bobby did not want Johnson to be his brother's running mate in 1960, advised against it, and did not care if Lyndon knew how he felt. After becoming Vice President, Johnson sank into the sort of semiobscurity traditional to holders of that post, and the standard gibe at New Frontier cocktail parties was: "Whatever happened to Lyndon?" Before President Kennedy's death, there was also a lot of talk about a "Dump Johnson" campaign. Through...
...peculiar and promising product called Teflon, a slippery white plastic that feels something like a wet bar of soap.* Discovered in 1938 almost accidentally by Du Pont scientists who were working on fluorocarbon refrigerants, Teflon has other valuable properties: it will burn only when directly exposed to flame, is a superior electrical insulator and resists tears and impact...
...departing the political scene, Macmillan remains true to his deep sense of history, and also to the promise he made two years ago at a party conference when, quoting Shakespeare, he said, "I do not intend to live after my flame lacks oil, to be the snuff of younger spirits...