Word: sanding
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Walt Disney adventure picture titled Treasure of Matecumbe, recalled Peter Ustinov, 54. Asked to turn away from the camera so his stuntman-double could take over, the well-rounded star stumbled and tore some ligaments in his legs. "The trouble was that my feet were planted in sand," explained Ustinov. "While I turned, my feet didn't. I was hit by a few hundred gallons of water, did an elegant curtsy and sat down." In all, the disabled actor will have spent three weeks sitting down -and a few more hobbling around on crutches-by the time his ligaments...
...seat confirms Newton's third law of motion. The air is piercingly fresh, and the desert mountains glow golden in the morning sun. But soon the drive will become a spastic, three-hour Cinerama focused on 100 miles of lifeless mesquite moonscape-beginning in Laughlin and running across sand washes, over mountains, around canyons and back. "Howdy doody!" Evans yells, skipping the yellow truck over a 5-ft. ravine. "I can't stay away. Racing off-road is like narcotics to a dope addict...
...pulled over, the cop probably says I'm sorry governor-general, I didn't know it was you. Go right on. So the governor-general probably takes out this Jensen Interceptor--this is the picture I have, see--late at night sometimes, and hauls along the beach where the sand is flat and hard, past the palm trees, watching the waves break, mayby making 110, 120. It's just a nice thing to think about, you know, not that it's important or anything. It's not important. God knows why people are always asking me about this, because what...
...smoked cigarettes for a while and even tried a pipe, disclosed Actress Rosemary Harris, but "I had never smoked cigars before." That is, not until she was cast as 19th century Novelist George Sand in the new public-television series Notorious Woman. Sand (née Aurore Dupin) not only indulged a taste for tobacco, but for men as well, including Composer Frédéric Chopin, Poet Alfred de Mussel and Novelist Prosper Merimee. "I don't have the incredible energy she had," said Harris, 48, suggesting that "a thyroid condition" might have accounted for Sand...
...after another, Egyptian dignitaries took turns opening the valve and sending jets of oil across the sand. Finally, an executive of Mobil Oil−a partner of the Egyptian oil firm that controls the wells−warned: "Better hold off, boys. That stuff is worth ten dollars a barrel...