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...object is to see who can shoot his 200-pound anvil the furthest. As one man in the Decatur crowd said, all these politicians were fine with him, but he sure hated to miss the anvil shooting.Governor GEORGE C. WALLACE...
...largest retailer in the world, we thought we should have the largest headquarters in the world." But the genesis of the Sears Tower is more complicated than that. When the company decided to leave its sprawling old headquarters on Chicago's deteriorating West Side, height was the furthest thing from the executives' minds. They had bought a two-block plot on the western edge of Chicago's Loop and approached the problem of building the headquarters in exactly the same way as they planned any of Sears' stores throughout the world-from the inside...
When Malle does put order into these diverse events it is more a reflection than a theory. He lets Indian politicians discuss splits within the Communist party, and films Indian gurus praying in isolation. He takes these themes to their furthest extremes by showing political problems in the slums of Bombay and the primitive beauty in natural village communes isolated from the Indian mainstream. These polarities bring some conclusions to the sequence of scenes...
Peckinpah is not making any easy comment about frontiers closing in and man losing his roots in nature and primal passions. He's pushed those themes to their furthest extremes before. Peckinpah here, for the first time, is able to treat all his characters without romanticization, with respectful distance, not close-up passion. He has come to a more nature viewpoint. What he decries is a country that can't prepare its men for the world they grow up in, stunting in youth the lives of those men and the face of the land they desecrate and the structures they...
...steal when the pitcher is throwing a curve because the ball takes longer to reach the plate and is harder for the catcher to handle. Even when the catcher's throw beats him, McGugan often avoids the tag by sliding to the part of the bag that is furthest from where the infielder receives the ball. In 29 attempts, McGugan has only been thrown out twice...