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Watching this film fold is in itself an unnerving spectacle. Though Fitzearruldo is almost as overbudgeted, overproduced, overblown as many Hollywood bondanzas, the added symbolic and idenlogical freight produced a particularly land thud when the whole thing falls aprt...
...star that rose out of Suffolk Downs two springs ago fell to earth unexpectedly last Saturday, accompanied by unusually grim fanfare, even for the hand of fate. The crack of a foreleg placed wrong, followed by the thud of a three-year-old colt hiring Belmont's hard dirt track at full speed, were the sounds to which the celebrated horse Timely Writer, made his final exit from racing...
Teran was a pit crewman, just 22. To someone standing a few feet away, the sound of the thud was enough. Teran was dead. But the reflex thought was the irony of betrayal, not the horror of racing. Who would think to look both ways before stepping out into the alltime one-way street? George Bignotti, the famed engine builder, picked up Armando Teran's shoes. After the rest of the debris was picked up, the race resumed...
...lines of traffic in New England stopped at red lights, the Texans are more efficient, using four-way stop signs, one of which I hadn't noticed because I was worrying about the motor stalling My right foot braked; there was a crunch of metal against metal and a thud when my left arm hit the dashboard. What would my father think? What about the lady in the other car? What about the Oranges...
...takes 30 minutes to master a computerized cash register, regardless of previous educational experience. Twenty-five of those minutes are spent figuring out the reverse-think that the damn things run on. Example: two large cokes = super; two; sodas; subtotal; total--thud, the drawer slams into your stomach. "Have a nice...