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...221B Baker Street, even though the place now houses the Abbey National Building Society. Groups on four continents regularly meet to study the canon (56 stories and four novels), as well as some 12,000 books about the sacred writings. The familiar lean figure with Inverness cape, deerstalker and underslung pipe regularly appears in the headlines. Speculating two weeks ago on who laid the mines plaguing U.S. convoys in the Persian Gulf, David Mellor, a British Foreign Office official mused, "Sherlock Holmes wouldn't take too long to resolve that...
...puffed upon his underslung pipe. "When I see a man shuffling a tarot deck, certain conclusions become manifest - the first of which is that you are wasting your time with occult twaddle...
...ticket at the 1951 Festival of Britain at which it transported more than 2 million passengers; it is now the puffing pride of Toronto, installed at the Ontario Science Center. The Gentleman's Flying Machine is powered by a Wandering Hot Air Brazier and "a swarm of underslung butterflies providing a trivial lift to the nose section...
There are differences, however, between Potts' vehicle and the no less obsessive rods and dragsters of the West Coast. The chief one is that Potts' car barely functions at all. The spidery space-frame chassis, underslung be tween bicycle wheels and clearing the ground by less than two inches, has no place for a driver. Radio controlled, it can hit 10 m.p.h., trailing rhetorical howls and crackles from its methanol-fueled engine and wreathed exhausts. In short, Potts has made a perfectly use less machine, an exquisitely tooled piece of four-wheeled costume jewelry...
...wealthy jurist, Justin (George C. Scott) goes insane when his wife dies and fancies himself Sherlock Holmes, complete with Inverness coat, underslung pipe and austere vanity. His brother-in-law tries to have Justin put into an institution to gain control of his fortune. Faced with "Holmes," the asylum assigns a real psychiatrist named Watson (Joanne Woodward). Even though the sex is wrong, the Baker Street Irregular decides that she is the Dr. Watson ("Elementary, my dear"), and the shrink goes along with the gag. Soon the two are tooling along in Manhattan in pursuit of a villain known inevitably...