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...stadium, down to the last pompon girl. With him is Marthe Keller, his mistress and representative of Black September, the Arab terrorist organization that is financing his attempt to turn homicidal fantasy into reality. Coming on fast is Robert Shaw, Israeli counterterrorist, who must shinny down a rope from a helicopter, attach a skyhook to the blimp and tow it away from the stadium before Dern sets off his destruction...
OSBORNE'S DESCRIPTIONS of sailing, childhood and adolescent play are good, and add some breadth to the book. By themselves, his narrative of a sailing cruise down the Baja coast or of the mental torment involved in sliding down a swinging rope in his grandfather's huge hay barn don't say much of anything, but provide pleasant interludes between the fights Robert has with his father...
...seen it--how often, alas! have I described?--John Ball starting down the first hole in a great match with a rose in his button hole, with the trampling and the hum of the prayerful Hoylake crowd behind him, held back by the blue-jerseyed fishermen manning the rope. To ancient hero-worshippers of my generation there never was and never can be again so moving a spectacle as that. But others, second only to it, come back. There is Bobby Jones winning the Open Championship at St. Andrews. He taps in his winning putt and the next moment there...
...Astronomer Harlow Shapley and Psychoanalyst Erik Erikson as well as on abstract ideas of psychology, peace, science and democracy. The first of their three Academy Awards was won in 1960 for Moon bird, a joyful cartoon that featured their two sons' fantasy of catching a big bird with rope and shovel...
...theme with pure showmanship, with extravagant, baroque, visually stupendous theatrics. The curtain rises, as it were, on a magnificent Venetian mosque on the Grand Canal. As fireworks explode above the Rialto and gondolas pass below, the huge head of a woman is hoisted out of the canal. Suddenly--a rope breaks, poles fall, masquers scream and the vast shape sinks back under the dark green water. The camera focuses in on one costumed mannequin, dressed in white, with his hair pulled back off an amazingly high forehead. The stage is set for Casanova...