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...true that a family begins its decline with the third generation? Just think-we've gone from A Farewell to Arms to "okeydoke, artichoke." Wow...
...business good? Wow, fantastic! Just great!" -Gari Andreani, Anchorage stockbroker...
...least one wow, a couple of gee whizzes, several neats and a little derisive laughter for The Land That Time Forgot, the best Saturday matinee movie in much too long. It is an elaborate fantasy adventure with no bearing in reality whatsoever. The movie boasts a blond American hero with a jaw like a hammock (Doug McClure), a blonde British heroine (Susan Penhaligon) and a whole bunch of soldiers, most of whom are nice guys. This happy crew gets mixed up with U-boats, torpedoings, fistfights, a mutiny, icebergs, lost civilizations, dinosaurs, pterodactyls, swamps, jungle, quicksand, strange-looking creatures...
...appeared in international meets three years ago, other runners viewed his style with disdain. Instead of pacing himself and saving a kick for the last quarter-mile, Bayi sprinted from the gun. His opponents, recalls Hurdler Tom Hill, "used to sit back at their old pace and say, 'Wow, this fool is going to drop dead on the third lap.' " Trouble was, Bayi never did. He began to make a habit of leaving astonished stars behind him. Last year at the Commonwealth Games in New Zealand, Bayi atomized Jim Ryun's seven-year-old 1,500-meter...
...Ross's liability was a firmly shut mind, Shawn's has been one that some times remains too charitably open. The Greening of America, with its pot-scent ed praise of youth (who in turn greeted the book with the immortal tribute "Oh, wow!"), made many readers wonder if the magazine had suffered a touch of sclerosis. The frontispiece, "Talk of the Town," turned suddenly from boutique prattle to sometimes perceptive, some times ponderous essays about Nixon, Watergate, Cambodia, Agnew or poli tics in general. The New Yorker's sol emn discovery of causes was often over...