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...also awash in the winter's worst Pacific storms, with rains, gales and even a tornado that were catastrophic for some residents but merely inconvenient for the Queen. There was an umbrella almost perpetually over Her Majesty's head. Split-second schedules, worked out over the past nine months, had to be adjusted and at the last minute readjusted, the royal yacht Britannia 's midweek sailing plans scrubbed in deference to 16-ft. seas, four floors of a hotel suddenly commandeered. At a dinner in her honor in San Francisco, the Queen made light of the drenching...
...week, trying to do the quad ten or 15 times each session. Most of the attempts are recorded on video tape, and when the acrobats are through, they watch what they have just done. Like football players after the game, they study their movements so that they can detect split-second errors in timing. They actually have six practice quads on tape, but the only stunts that are officially counted are those before a paying audience...
...body, stolid as a '53 Studebaker, could erupt in spasms of grace. As one of the Blues Brothers, the blue-eyed soul group that brought Belushi a platinum record and a big-budget movie, this slab in a black suit would suddenly turn a series of split-second cartwheels, like a hippo Baryshnikov. Belushi was the ideal comic complement to his SNL colleague, close friend and fellow Blues Brother Dan Aykroyd. But whereas Aykroyd disappears into his wicked, perfectly pitched characterizations, Belushi was a Method mimic. His impersonations seemed fun-house mirrors of his own turbulence. They were...
Slightly larger than a cigarette case, the new camera does everything but process film. It performs a split-second analysis of distance and brightness, sets the proper exposure, activates a flash if needed and advances the film while the flash recharges. The focal length is so short -12.5 mm - that everything from 4 ft. to infinity is in focus at all times, eliminating any need for a lens that turns and focuses. Two of the three new models can snap objects only 18 in. away...
Morris II works about 20 days a year and grosses $5,000 to $10,000. He often will patiently go through 40 to 50 takes to synchronize the split-second timing required for the commercials. The residuals from these ads have made a modest fortune for Morris' sophisticated voice-Actor John Irwin...