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UNFORTUNATELY, Widerberg manages to blur other scenes he clearly does not want to blur. The wide-open lens causes objects to bounce in and out of focus, and the effect is annoying. The director has other technical problems. The cuts between scenes are sloppy; there are no smooth transitions...
...Speedway is really two tracks: a two-mile road course for sports cars and the stock-car "trioval"-a roughly triangular, 2½-mile circuit with two high-speed turns banked at 31° and a third turn banked at 18°. The banking, the perfectly smooth asphalt paving, plus the track's unusual width -three cars can race abreast-make it the fastest race track in the world. In qualifying trials for last week's tenth annual Daytona 500, the top 13 qualifiers ran the course at more than 180 m.p.h...
...MARIJUANA movie, then. In olden, non-pop times it might have been called Romance, an exploration into that cold, diamond land between reality and fantasy. For the Romancer it's a terrifying land, more real than real, full of wind-smooth souls and forces which nudge us through life. "Sleeping or waking, we hear not the airy footsteps of the strange things that almost happen," wrote Nathaniel Hawthorne. Or, to quote Hunter's epigraph for Desire: "In the vocabulary of the sub-conscious there is a word for every shape and sound that goes unnoticed in passing time. Though...
...taking the singles Nayar played six men, and lost only one game out of nine-teen. Nayar has a smooth grace that makes his blindingly fast game look easy. While most of his opponents relied on smashes, Nayar combined smashes with gentle up-court shots that forced his opposition to run up and down the court and allowed Nayar to control the matches...
Skimming over waves ten feet high, the SR.N4 raced ahead at speeds as high as 53 m.p.h., carrying a crew of four and 28 passengers. The ride was surprisingly smooth. Reported Peter Lamb, chief test commander of British Hovercraft Corp.: "This will make seasickness a thing of the past...