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...cycling, along with the explosive power of swimming and track. By recording the comic pratfalls of riders and weight lifters, the poignant stumbles of pentathlon runners in the home stretch, it has shown that sports are not as easy as the best athletes make them look. With the utter clarity of its new technique, super-slow-motion, it may revolutionize coverage of some swift-paced sports...
...will not fly for 50 years." Thomas Edison, circa 1880: "The phonograph . . . is not of any commercial value." Albert Einstein, 1932: "There is not the slightest indication that [nuclear] energy will ever be obtainable." Richard Wooley, then Britain's Astronomer Royal, 1956: "Space travel is utter bilge...
...addition, success has spawned dozens of imitators, like NBC's Friday Night Videos. To fend off these rock-alikes, MTV is running commercials with testimonials from pop idols like David Bowie, who shout, "I want my MTV!" When the shares are offered, MTV hopes Wall Street investors will utter those same words...
...drive you to the fallout shelter. The message is bleak--there is no hope for society, it is hopelessly insane, skewed. The medium is numbing--the director, Alex Cox, has spliced together a series of disjointed scenes into a rambling stream-of-consciousness denunciation of American society. The utter weirdness of society, the hopelessness of it all is insistently driven home to us in scene after scene, whether we're watching Otto shovel down his dinner from a can marked simply "Food," or watching Otto's punk friend Duke die after a shoot-out in a liquor store. "I know...
...more than a quarter-century have learned to read the lines on Gromyko's face for clues about Soviet moves abroad have noticed that the fleeting smile that he would offer during the halcyon days of détente has turned to a quasipermanent scowl. His lips seem pursed to utter a defiant nyet at a moment's notice. Says a West German official recently returned from Moscow: "His is the first face you see when you arrive and the last face you see when you leave. These days it is not a pleasant face...