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Other students, shortening time horizons in a different direction, sought to heighten the quality of sensual and mental experience with hallucinegenic drugs or marijuana. Their drug-taking was often seen as a form of escaping or opting out of the system. But most of those who experimented with drugs--and itwas...
...best of TV-the imagination of its reporters, the skills of its engineers. Parabolic microphones pick up a quarterback's signal changes; they eavesdrop on conversations between a golfer and his caddy. Other gimmicks such as "instant replay," "stop action," and the split screen help to heighten drama and educate the fan in the intricacies of the game...
...honest, intelligent, occasionally ungrammatical. Fine. But, because of an enduring romanticism that dates back to the time you saw your first John Wayne western, you would like him to be more than he is. And the traces of Napoleon Solo cool--the clipped flippancy and modest arrogance--only heighten the unwarranted but inescapable disillusionment. You want to put him back into his element, the televised make-believe of T.H.R.U.S.H. villains, walkie-talkie pens, tranquilizer guns and the resourceful Illya...
...trouble serving into wind and sun, was broken. But he and Jarvis stayed alive with a series of brilliant passing shots and topspin lobs that broke Waltz. After Jarvis and Brooks held serve, the Crimson's second team won their third set, 14-12, to even the match and heighten the tension...
...have argued that it should be ended at almost any price. In the Senate, Kentucky Republican Thruston Morton attacked both groups for indulging in "verbal overkill" in the debate, warning that "loose talk on the one hand, and deplorable, even illegal behavior on the other, both tend to heighten current misunderstanding and misapprehension." If the war's critics have been less vociferous in recent months, he implied, it is not because they are being silenced by the Administration but by events. "All they've got to do," he said, "is look at the results of the elections...