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...tiny point-of-view camera, a 2-in., 2 3/4-oz. black box that can be attached to the front of a bobsled, a skier's boot, even (via a special wheeled apparatus) a hockey puck. No P.O.V. camera will be used during actual competition, but ABC plans to strap one, for example, to the helmet of the "forerunner" who skis the course just before the start of the downhill races. "We're putting cameras where they have never been before," says Pierre De Lespinois, a consultant for special effects. "We are taking the viewer off the 50-yd.-line...
...world of the child." The set consists of red tubular scaffolding with connecting platforms. Around this are displayed the emblems of childhood: a red plastic baseball bat, a father's jacket, a mother's frying pan, a sister's dress and, the play's most symbolic prop, the leather strap. For three hours actors and patients work at making a whole out of their disparate scenes. What emerges is a riveting pastiche in which children are beaten by drunken parents, humiliated by everyone, and, above all, forced to exist in a world of aching loneliness: a child in a wheelchair...
...Texas-based archrivals, Continental and American, have both endorsed proposals that airlines be required to disclose monthly statistics for on-time operations, baggage handling and other areas of performance. That might give passengers a welcome chance to find out what kind of ride they will get long before they strap on their safety belts...
...Innerspace machine. Zero defects. Strap yourself inside it, blast off and have a great time...
Though crew is traditionally thought of as a man's sport, the Radcliffe crew team has proven that you don't have to wear a jock strap to row competitively and successfully on the Charles River...