Word: toye
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Blake Edwards worked with a minimal script and checked each scene with instant playback on video tape. The result of the ad-lib approach, however, is not a swinging riot of originals but a parade of old reliables. A drunken waiter weaves around with his tray of drinks, the toy arrow with a suction cup on its end finds its way to someone's' forehead as inevitably as the foaming detergent finds its way into the swimming pool...
...make a jump takeoff, cruise at 120 m.p.h., maintain altitude at a forward speed of only 30 m.p.h. and settle gently to a spot landing. Should its engine fail in flight, the gyroplane can float safely to earth under its whirling rotor, much like a Cracker Jack toy. It cannot, however, match the helicopter's unique feat of hovering motionless in midair...
...bank's main lobby. Emphasizing the virtues of teamwork, he has arrived at official meetings decked out in baseball and football uniforms. At one meeting, anxious to rev up competition among his bank's various branches, he showed up at the wheel of a child's toy car. And to make the point that the bank's executives ought to aim at bigger and bigger targets, he once donned a shooting jacket and bounded into a conference room amid a volley of blank .30-cal. cartridges...
...dream that jagged pace which we recall in first waking moments. Desire, I have argued, has speed. Within each scene, however, Hunter achieves slowness by letting the camera, as if two joints high, revel in the immediate, fix joyfully on shapes, colors, a green stick of incense, a miniature toy horse on wheels, the rise of bubbles in near boiling water...
Despite such assurance, aviation circles put a good part of the blame for the slowdown on politics. The program remains a prime target for a vociferous and growing minority. "A toy for the international jet set," Wisconsin Democrat William Proxmire called it in a Senate speech last fall. In his budget for the fiscal year starting next July, President Johnson has already trimmed his request for SST funds to $223 million, an $80.6 million increase from fiscal 1968 but only half of the boost that the Administration proposed last summer. Slowing development further would mollify congressional economizers by permitting additional...