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...race, but smashes into the dock when Cowboy Kennedy slams the engines into reverse at high speed and conks them out), the film takes on a measure of verve and dash. Best scene is the nighttime patrol when, running without lights, Kennedy's PT suddenly comes under the prow of a blacked-out Japanese destroyer and PT 109's plywood hull is sliced through like an orange crate. There is a moment of silence, then a crackling as the sea becomes molten with flaming fuel, and in the night come the terrified cries of men calling...
...tremendous Todd-AO screen can make it. The De Luxe Color is perfection; the sets, for the most part, are harmonious modules of the Golden Section to which all good classical architecture answered; and a capital ship for an ocean trip is Cleopatra's barge-250 ft. from prow to poop and covered with gilt linoleum...
Victorian gentlemen, rustled and bustled at by ladies in swathes of outer material and nether armor, paid handsome prices for paintings of unclad women in voluptuous tangles, with titles like A Nude Woman or Youth on the Prow and Pleasure at the Helm, and a barroom without a nude was naked indeed. But today the naked lady-or bits and pieces of her-is filling the advertising columns and editorial pages of the fashion magazines, general magazines and even family newspapers...
Pontiac. Following the 1962 trend toward pizazz. Pontiac has turned out a Grand Prix hardtop coupe replete with stick shift, bucket seats and dual exhaust pipes. To differentiate it from the standard Pontiacs. which have new prow-shaped grilles, the Grand Prix grille is split by a vertical wedge. Like most 1962 cars, Pontiacs have such improved maintenance features as 35.000-mile chassis-lubrication intervals, 4.000-mile oil changes and two-year radiator coolant...
...bonfires and of lanterns held high by hollow-eyed Hindu functionaries gave the scene an exotic glow. Tongues of humanity darted back and forth across the road in front of the moving wheels, as helpless police tried to clear the path. The procession cut through them slowly, like the prow of a ship, and the crowd rolled back again like the stubborn seas...