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Whenever Ford set out on a run, he was pursued by an entourage of family members, friends, hangers-on and Secret Service agents-selected for their skiing skills-that strung out for hundreds of yards in his wake, as though playing follow-the-leader. "He's fast," approvingly observed one ski instructor who tagged along. "He isn't in the professional class, but he's an advanced intermediate...
...towed down the track, some grotesquely mangled, others strangely untouched by the misfortune that cut short their brief plea for glory. Like taut, shiny beasts they crouch, ready to spring at any moment--except that their insides are shot to hell. As the race progresses the cars become more strung out. The engines now scream shrilly. Carlos Reutemann, who has already won races this year, is leading. Reggazoni, Ferrari's No. 1 driver and hope for the championship, has dropped out. I later read that he had had suspension problems. Lauda too is no longer a threat. Suddenly Reutemann appears...
...ever-present outdoor tables and chairs of the sidewalk cafes. Even the awnings had been furled into safe tight rolls. And then the stage was readied: megaphones and loudspeakers were set up, political banners strung, and huge powerful arc lights borrowed from movie studios were brought out to illuminate the scene for television...
...high crimes to a minimum. Breck Stancill (Richard Burton) knows a little better. A Southern aristocrat gone to seed, he usually stays inside his house on top of Stancill's Mountain, spending his days mostly by swilling Ballantine's Scotch and remembering a forebear who was strung up by the townspeople for being soft on slavery. Stancill lets blacks live on his mountain rent free, but he is hardly a fighting liberal. Nevertheless, he sure riles the good old boys, especially Butt Cutt Gates (Cameron Mitchell...
...fashioned a personality for himself-a sort of little-theater Hitchcock-and assaulted audiences with gimmicks that never really succeeded in disguising the abject sleaziness of his movies. In The House on Haunted Hill, he announced a new process called "Emerge," which turned out to be a phosphorescent skeleton strung on wires and sent scurrying over the heads of the audience. In The Tingler, Castle himself appeared at the beginning to warn audiences they would receive what turned out to be-quite literally-a shock. Selected seats were wired, and when the monster was unleashed in the film certain members...