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...Alain Colas. A handsome 28-year-old Frenchman with a Tahitian beauty as his fiancee and the sea as his mistress, Colas was ashore in Newport, sipping a heady mixture of champagne and acclaim. Colas (pronounced Kola) had crossed the finish line 20 days, 1 3 hours and 15 minutes after the start, for the fastest - by more than five days - winning time in the four quadrennial races held to date. In his ugly duckling of a boat, the 70-ft. by 35-ft. aluminum trimaran Pen Duick IV, Colas had averaged about 150 nautical miles...
...that really set the new complex apart from Disneyland and its imitators. Disneymen call their creation a "total destination resort"-not just a stopover, in other words, but a place to spend a weekend or a week. Early guests have been staying at the Polynesian Village Hotel, built in Tahitian style along a lake shore, with 500 rooms in five so-called long houses. The Contemporary Resort Hotel, which looks vaguely like a Mayan pyramid and features a 14-story-deep lobby appropriately called the Grand Canyon Concourse, will be finished by January, and two more cavernous hotels-in Persian...
...Lowell House presentation, a Greek chorus sets the stage and beautifully suggests the pair's lifelessness and plasticity by treating them as just two more props to be moved into place. Another innovation is the actual acting out of the Tahitian movie, a touch that makes the suburbanites shrink further into irreality, by graphic contrast with the film characters of their imagination...
...expanding circles. Disneyland, once described as "the world's biggest toy lor the world's biggest boy," consumed most of his interest in the last years of his life. When it came to technical matters, he was a perfectionist; he had the huge shade tree at the Tahitian Terrace pruned to better his view, and then had new branches stuck on to restore the tree's symmetry. Yet the mermaid who drifts by during the otherwise believable submarine ride is bare-breasted but lacks nipples...
...eventually, looking at waves breaking on beaches, whether they are Senegalese or Tahitian, becomes tiresome. Like most amateur filmmakers, Brown doesn't know where to end The Endless Summer; he has to show just one more well-known surfing haunt and one more surfer bleeding from an ugly gash on the forehead. The ingenuous quips and noises eventually come to seem plainly adolescent...