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...motion picture, famous for its shots of Hedy Lamarr unclothed, will be brought here under the sponsorship of Ivy Films. Nothing will be cut out, according to George M. Kurzon ’51, who announced the showing yesterday...
...Clason, Aetna spokesman, said that no one has yet made legal motion against the insurance company to challenge that conclusion...
Probably the only thing most people care to know about their gurgling inner organs is that they are functioning properly. But for Jean-Pierre Barral, an osteopath practicing in Grenoble, France, the body's vital viscera are like a beautifully complicated timepiece, each part in subtle but perpetual motion relative to the others. "In a single day, your internal organs move 30,000 times," he says. "Your liver alone travels 600 meters...
RUMBLE SEAT If you think digital surround sound is for sissies and you've got a spare $16,000, the Odyssee Motion Simulator may be right up your alley. Four hydraulic "actuators" rattle and shake your La-Z-Boy like an amusement-park ride in perfect synch with such action-adventure movies as Twister and Jurassic Park. The device moves your seat only five-eighths of an inch, but that's enough to convince your body that a certain T. rex is getting closer every second...
...That isn't true. I made up the part about dreaming. In fact, after the twenty-fifth or twenty-sixth vivid and spouting decapitation, after so many human heads wantonly struck off by the studio's tricksters of special effects and sent spinning slow-motion like Sputniks, I almost stopped paying attention. The images ceased to make their way to that part of my brain where dreams - and presumably, compassion - are conceived...