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...drive a Fiat, and I live at a much slower pace. I spend lots of idle hours on lonely roads wondering when the tow truck will come, or sitting at the repair shop waiting for the mechanic to explain why the door handle fell off, the clutch cable snapped, and the horn doesn't work on a car that's only three months...
After a hollow, hilarious party at which the guests talk only in the language of commercials, a television director named Ferdinand (Jean-Paul Belmondo) decides that he needs his baby sitter more than his children do. With her in tow, he ricochets from Paris to the Riviera to an idyllic island where he hopes to end his days. He gets his wish: what begins as a fable of ennui ends as a parable of evil...
...Yeah, that's what I thought," he said. "Now isn't that a fine name?" And with that he started walking back up the aisle to his seat at the front of the plane, still holding me in tow by my hand, while he repeated his joke to the reporters on either side of him, "The Haaaaarvard CRIMson. Now isn't that a fahn name...
Producer Seltzer hoped to make 50 miles a day, usually made a little over 10. Three hours from Nairobi, one of the safari's 15 vehicles, a custom-made $28,000 British truck, gave out. Next to go were the gasoline truck and the tow truck. Four of the seven 16-mm. cameras went out of commission the first three weeks, and the film kept melting. Holden's human brigade got through unscathed, though, thanks in part to the Kenya Army Camel Corps, which rode shotgun for the company to protect it against marauding Shifta tribesmen. Holden survived...
...have been easily avoided by minuscule foresight," sighs Captain David Oliver of the Coast Guard in Chicago. "Mostly it's just plain stupidity." Seasoned boatmen still shake their heads over the youthful sport who recently went blasting around Lake of the Ozarks, Mo., with a water-skier in tow. Keeping his eyes on the skier, he slammed at 30 m.p.h. into a cabin cruiser, decapitating himself in the process. Equally foolish were the nine people who piled into a 16-ft. outboard and put to sea from York, Me., last June. Naturally, the boat soon foundered; eight...