Word: strips
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Johnson's victory came in the triple jump right after the Yardlings had dropped both relays to fall one point behind. Princeton held first and second in the event going into the final leap, but Johnson raced down the strip to go 46'8" and break the oldest freshman record at Harvard. Frank Connelly set the old record of 45 feet when he won in the 1896 Olympics...
Twang & Plane. It takes genuine skill and some luck. No serious pressure can be exerted on the line; yet the fish cannot be permitted to strip too much off the reel, or the fragile line may break just from its own weight in the water. Light-tackle anglers try to distract and turn a running fish by twanging the taut line with their fingers; if the fish persists in running, they must rev up their boat engines and give chase, trying to retrieve enough line to get the fish back under control. A heavy fish that chooses to sound deep...
...renaissance is on its way. As the spy film sinks slowly in the West, and the western sinks rapidly into TV, studios are occupied with some dozen ambitious fantasy features, ranging from Ray Bradbury's The Illustrated Man with Rod Steiger, to the high-camp French comic strip Barbarella, with Jane Fonda. The next trend for Kubrick? All he will give away is that it will be "a mind boggler...
...last piece, "Epilogue, or having read the book," the program notes claim to show that "the final definition of dance is the ultimate freedom of the imagination." While this offering is the most amusing, and the most gimmicky (featuring a neon-lit strip-tease in which Miss Crouse and Mr. Kemper remove their white gloves, socks, and hairbands) it is also the most controlled. Lighting, movement and music are in close harmony, while forcing a consciousness of each medium individually as light is made to dance, dancers to glow, and the music plays to the dictates of either...
PLAZA SUITE is a ride through a tunnel of fun, flecked with a recognition of life's unfunny truths. In three playlets, Neil Simon hawks almost uninterrupted laughter, particularly in a sly satire of the Sunset Strip set, and a flailing farce about the father of a most reluctant bride...