Word: hairpins
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...days of the solar system. Three years later, while swinging around the sun, the mother ship will rendezvous with a second comet called Tempel 2 and follow it for a year. During that time, it will continually observe all the changes the comet undergoes as it makes its fiery hairpin turn around the sun and heads off into space again. Then the craft will maneuver toward Tempers head and perhaps give it a parting nudge to see how solid...
This show is a roller coaster of merriment, with hairpin turns of plot, zany swoops of emotion and a breakneck tempo. But for fanciers of substance in entertainment, soap bubbles would be solider. Kaufman and Hart twisted their comic vise on Hollywood at just the time the movie colony was panicking over emergent speech. Jolson had sung; could Shakespeare be far behind? In panic, Hollywood raided Broadway for its voices...
...customer wanted. For her to put out her hand, take a piece of paper, slice off a chunk of cheese and weigh it could take a quarter of an hour. If you asked her the cost, she began to mull it over and scratch under her wig with a hairpin. If the customer bought on credit and Zeldele marked down the amount, she couldn't make out later what she had written. When the war came and German marks ... came into use, she grew completely bewildered. Eli abused her in front of the customers and called...
...steep grade, through Idaho Springs and Empire, then right at the fork onto U.S. 40. Forty takes you over the Continental Divide through Berthoud Pass at 11,300 feet, and from the summit of the pass it is just a matter of not doing anything stupid on the hairpin turns that slither down the mountainside like a resting rattlesnake...
...Tally is not showing us the face of tragedy but drawing a profile of the ambiguous nature of the hero. Was Scott mad for glory? Despite an ardent and adoring bride (Lindsay Grouse), could he feel the fullness of life only on the hairpin curve of total danger? One is bound to feel that Tally wants us to see the hero as a visionary. The reason his men follow him is that his leadership is a magnetic pole, more real to them than the actual pole...