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...days and can run through 25,000 ft. of film to get the final, worthy 90 ft. For an ad introducing Mattel Toys' new Bathhouse Brass line, a film crew covered 1,000 miles to shoot in eight different locations. The spot shows a parade of kids cavorting across sand dunes and careering down slides while madly blasting away on their plastic "brassoons," "toobas" and "floogle-horns." A kind of psychedelic version of the Pied Piper, the ad is typical of the wild, hyped-up pitches aired in the "Saturday morning jungle...
...June 7]. I have met many people like Reader Lale. And behind their defense of faceless conformity lies a paralyzing fear. Fear of change. Fear of humor. And fear of disturbing their comfortable, fuzzy thinking. I, too, deplore the self-indulgent hedonism and head-in-the-sand anarchy gaining ground among youth today. But an ostrich is an ostrich, whether a soft-brained young anarchist or a soft-living non-think suburbanite. These birds may look different. They may even fight each other. But they are different only like male and female. And together they will breed destruction...
...indefinitely-the race was on. Last week, getting the jump on the Egyptians, Israel started construction of a $113 million pipeline project linking the port of Elath on the Gulf of Aqaba to Ashkelon on the Mediterranean. Bulldozers at both ends of the planned, 160-mile line began clearing sand dunes to make way for oil-storage tanks. The 42-in pipeline, which is being built by Israeli, U.S. and French technicians, should be able to transmit 15 million tons of crude per year upon its completion in August 1969. With the addition of more pumping stations its annual capacity...
...scheduled to face two bulls. Betting on first-round knockdowns, Willie collected a bundle. The first bull was so weak that his knees buckled as soon as he spotted the champ's cape. The second was obviously in the tank; he stuck his head in the sand and calmly awaited the knockout. While the oldtime aficionados in the stands whistled El Cordobés out of the ring, Willie stood there happily, waving his big fist full of pesetas and yelling: "Give him the ears! Give him the tail! Give him two tails...
...Portis has succeeded in creating in Mattie Ross a triumphant character, with true grit and sand, an original piece of Americana-sort of a Portrait of Whistler's Mother as a Young Girl in Indian Territory. And he has most vividly produced a true mock western: one in which blood flows with the same impact as real tomato soup suddenly gushing out of an Andy Warhol...