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...largest firework display in 250 years," a figure that roughly but deliberately recalls the pyrotechnic extravagance that celebrated the Treaty of Aix-la-Chapelle in 1749. It was for that occasion that Handel composed his Music for the Royal Fireworks, which will also accompany the meteor shower of bombshells, flash reports, bombettes, pirouettes, Catherine wheels, saucissons, serpents and good old-fashioned detonations over Hyde Park on the wedding eve this week. Parker's field lieutenant is an intense 29-year veteran of Paines Fireworks Co., Roly Harrison, who admits that, when the time comes for ignition, the entire display...
First there are the eyes, great brown pools that can reflect a doe's yearning or flash with Mediterranean fire...
...shone brightly as technicians aboard the destroyer U.S.S. Coontz checked over its complement of guided missiles. Suddenly, at 3:05 p.m. last Tuesday, a flash and a roar broke the quiet of the tropic afternoon. Officers on the bridge watched horrified as a 15-ft.-long Harpoon, loaded with high explosives, soared off over the blue-green waters of the Caribbean toward the resort island of St. Croix. It vanished completely...
...flash point was the original ad campaign, which stressed the topless debut of Julie Andrews. "Clearly they perceive the film first as the baring of my wife's breasts and second as a comedy," he protests. Paramount scrapped the campaign when Edwards threatened to remove the scene. Next, he tangled with the studio over the cost of a press junket, finally paying the $110,000 tab himself. "I want to tell you that various people are repeating lines right out of the script," he cries. "It is life imitating art. Every day, by phone or telex, they validate...
...certain technique just one yawing notch beyond what was done before, is what makes them much more than simple imitators. Throughout Raiders there are references to Hitchcock, to the old B-Movie serials, to the team's own previous movies. And yet, they never stop the flow. They simply flash and are registered, adding that much more for sheer cleverness, but never distracting. Instead, they give the feeling that you are in the hands of a master--which immediately gives the film added resonance. Suddenly, Raider's quirky internal logic seems natural. You stop looking for holes, because you know...