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...third at the Santa Anita Derby several weeks earlier. When there seemed to be a chance to narrow down the Derby field in the Wood Memorial in New York in mid-April, that race had to be split into two sections to handle the overflow of entrants. One winner, Rube the Great, is considered a strong Derby contender, but the other, Flip Sal, is largely untested. The only horse to show solid promise thus far is Judger, winner of the Florida Derby and the Blue Grass Stakes with come-from-behind spurts down the homestretch...
Meanwhile, Rube the Great (a fine name for a prospective Derby winner) charged past the field to win by five easy lengths. Capital Asset, Secretariat's half brother, and Capito, half brother to Riva Ridge, both suffered from an acute lack of speed in the race, and were never in contention...
...should be obvious by now that nobody has the faintest idea. Protagonist, Judger, Cannonade, Capital Asset, and Capito will all need some juicing up if they're going to do it. And can anyone see a beast named Rube the Great etching his name into the annals of history...
Presiding over the action is Lewis Stadlen, who plays the geriatric Voltaire, the buoyant Pangloss and assorted villains. The set, which might have been a collaboration between Rube Goldberg and the sculptor Jean Tinguely, turns in its own virtuoso performance. It throws down bridges between continents, cascades green streamers down to simulate jungle, and rocks like a storm-battered ship. Despite such assaults, the audience is treated with a kind of 18th century courtesy and just the right note of complicity. If there could be a lovelier Candide than this, it is difficult to imagine...
Backster is the essence of conservatism compared with the book's more adventurous researchers. A New Jersey electronics buff, Pierre Paul Sauvin, attached a Rube Goldbergian machine to his plants, and then spent the weekend with his girl friend at a place 80 miles away. He found that even at that distance the plants had responded to his sexual relations with the girl. The tone oscillators went "right off the top," he says, at the moment of orgasm...