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...soloists, the five are diverse and brilliant. Ivers, the most aggressive, plays harp at capacity volume, punctuating his solos with sharp staccato blasts shaking him from head to toes. Tschudin, scorning more pedestrian methods, gets high on his organ and builds climatic crescendos of musical phrases. As for Hillman, the other four call him the Ghost Rider, because "he can draw fast enough to shoot a knife that's being thrown at him." He has a wonderful habit of bending the final electronic note of his beautiful guitar solos--a habit which invaliably draws a series of awe-struck screams...
...Last week, completing the first step of a project that may rank as one of the biggest land developments in the U.S., the Irvine Company opened a $20 million, 75-acre super shopping center called Fashion Island. The center embraces 56 handsome stores strung along a broad, tree-lined pedestrian mall overlooking the Pacific. Aiming at well-heeled shoppers from suburban Newport Beach and Balboa as well as Los Angeles, Fashion Islanders expect to ring up sales of $35 million a year...
...would be nicer to worry about bullets zipping, but everybody has his own little idea about what's melodramatic. Corman's is oddly pedestrian, especially plot-wise. Whenever a bastardly gangster pokes his head on the screen for the first time, an ominous reportorial voice treats you to his date of birth, to a list of his illegal actvities including the number of wives and mistresses he keeps, and to the picturesque means of his invariably violent death. The resumes are satisfying; Corman kills any curiosity about a man's fate that may have started growing malignantly inside...
Charles P. Whitlock, assistant to the President for civic and government relations, said yesterday agreement on construction of a "Holyoke-type" building on the University-owned Chruch Street garage site, and a pedestrian mall linking Church St. with Appian Way and Radcliffe Yard would be major considerations in the decision...
...curbed if cities are to be made human again. "For the first time in history-since he came down from the trees," laments Doxiadis, "man is losing the right to walk inside his cities." Several cities-among them Philadelphia, Washington, Houston and Minneapolis-either have or are planning pedestrian malls...