Word: beneath
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...walls were set on a carpet and volunteers stood on the carpet's edges to prove that it stayed in place and did not hide a trap door. (There actually was a trap door. When it was opened, the carpet sagged, despite the volunteers, and Houdini inched beneath the wall. This part of the act was hidden from both volunteers and audience by a screen.) He was soldered into a coffin made of galvanized iron and dunked in a swimming pool for an hour and a half. (Skeptics insisted that he had chemicals in the coffin to absorb carbon...
From Marina Grande most visitors take a shiny new aluminum funicular (fare: 28?) up to the tiny Piazza Umberto, Capri's main square. There the day excursionist mounts the steps behind the piazza-to save money, he does not take a cafe table-and watches the crowd swirling beneath: men with pink shoes and dyed blond hair, women in sequined toreador slacks or skintight shorts...
...kind of critical apprehension. Surely, Horror Movie Expert William Castle, 45, had dreamed up a gimmick more devilish than that. He had. Seconds later, as the tingler was supposedly slithering across the screen, seats actually shivered and buzzed; the audience tingled for fair. Bill Castle had wired vibrators beneath almost everyone in the place...
...Ideal Woman. "Like Moses,'' Belle begins, "I wasn't born. I was found." She was found one day in 1875, "squalling and squirming" beneath a big sunflower on the outskirts of Emporia, Kans., and carried home by John Ramsay Graham, editor of the Emporia News, who named her Isabel and raised her-except for a brief period when she was kidnaped by some passing Indians-as his daughter. At 17, Isabel saw a performance of Robin Hood, decided then and there that she wanted to be an actress, ran away from home...
...pull. With a screech of stretched leather and a grinding of wood on wood, the towering structure swayed into motion and started down the sandy avenue, flanked by policemen to keep people back from the huge wheels (though it has been decades since anyone committed the traditional holy suicide beneath the carts, accidents have been common...