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...staggering power of the scene in which Giovanni stabs his sister Annabella is due to a vaulting funnel effect achieved through intense turquoise lighting of the higher recesses of the set above her bed. Shades of rose, violet and pale turquoise give way in the lighting of the last scenes to the wild-set and dark-set of hues. If Ford's themes foreshadow Sade, Poe and Nabokov, the combined effect of Colacecchia's set and Jonathan Miller's lighting evokes the same sense of demented, striving sensuality found in the eighteenth-century etchings of Piranesi...
Campbell looked back and saw "a big black funnel, about 75 yds. wide at the ground, and maybe 500 ft. high." The twister passed over his car, bouncing it up and down a few times; then everything went calm. "Everything seemed to be in slow motion," he says. "I could detect all sorts of things swirling around me. At one point I thought I saw a human body fly past. I could see right through the storm. I suddenly realized I was in the eye of the storm...
Torn to Bits. What Campbell witnessed was characteristic of a tornado. The houses on either side of a tornado's twisting funnel are in a low-pressure area. But the air inside the houses momentarily retains its original pressure. In that instant, a house can simply explode. Thus Civil Defense authorities urge people to keep their windows and doors open during a tornado so that the pressures can equalize. In Inverness, few heeded weather-service warnings that preceded the twisters...
...reality of the situation." Explains Howard: "We emphasize how sturdy most houses are, that in most places only a few glasses were broken, that people are not as fragile as glasses." Stainbrook proposes more than just talk. Instead of closing off disaster areas, he says, authorities ought to "funnel people through on guided tours, so they can see what really happened and come to terms with distorting anxieties...
...command the greatest information-gathering mechanism in the world. It is an untidy, ungainly monster. Cables by the thousands pour in daily to the Pentagon, the State Department and the CIA, in time of crisis or relative calm. In the Nixon Administration, the departments and agencies funnel their foreign intelligence through National Security Adviser Henry Kissinger. At roughly 9 o'clock each morning, he passes a 20-page summary on to the President, along with special memos of his own. During the day, Kissinger clips vital cables and forwards them to Nixon, sometimes hourly, sometimes even oftener. The total...