Word: sec
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...film called Luxo Jr. goes even further. The 90-sec. sequence, created by former Disney Animator John Lasseter, manages to charge two perfectly realistic desk lamps with the emotional intensity of a father-son relationship. When Luxo Jr. accidently bursts his bouncing ball, the film evokes sadness, compassion and remorse with nothing more than the wave of a lamp cord and the dip of a smooth, metallic head. "Reality is a convenient measure of complexity," says Smith. "But why be restricted to reality...
...wrong, for this is pig racing, run on an 85-ft. sawdust oval track, and the porkers do not dawdle: the swiftest swine cross the finish line in 5 or 6 sec. In his best Kentucky Derby style, Holding calls the race: "Pigmalion's first out of the box, with the lead on the rail. Hamtrak settles into second, with Flying Frank third." Suddenly his voice rises excitedly: "Here comes Boaris Karloff on the outside, closing fast around the final turn!" Holding is drowned out by the shouts of the crowd as the pack pounds down the stretch...
This season's most promising performer is a spotted tan gilt named Huckleberry Hog, who has a good shot at breaking the record: 4.48 sec. on the flat, held by a gilt named American Made. But even if she sizzles to a new speed record and is enshrined in Heinold's hog hall of fame, poor Huck's fate is already sealed. After a brief breeding reprieve -- to produce not racers but simply high-quality piglets -- she gets a one-way ticket to the abattoir, along with all this year's other stars. Says Holding, who plans to retire from...
...Muskogee, Okla., to have a go at breaking their 1983 record of 72 parachutists in cluster formation. Even though 24 previous attempts had ended in failure, hopes were high as the sky divers boarded three specially equipped DC-3s. At 15,000 ft. they bailed out, took 61 sec. to set up the formation, then held it for 7.67 sec. Jumper Bill Campbell of Muskogee had only a limited view, but, he said, "I knew it had happened by watching the smiling faces in front...
Sokolow and Wilkis signed consent decrees to settle the SEC's civil charges against them, neither formally admitting nor denying guilt. Wilkis' lawyer, though, said his client, a graduate of Harvard College and Stanford University's business school, "acknowledges . . . his own violations of the law." Both men were banned for life from the U.S. securities business, and probably still face criminal charges. To earn a chance for leniency, Wilkis and Sokolow extended swift cooperation to authorities. Wilkis resigned from E.F. Hutton even before the SEC brought its case. Sokolow's lawyer said his client, who majored in economics...