Word: dracula
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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There was something familiar about the name. The leader of China's Red Guards? A Paris couturier? Star of the Dracula movies? Perhaps a new submarine? Those glorious guesses were obtained when 2,000 Britons were asked to identify U Thant. Only 58% of the chaps in the street could place U Thant correctly as U.N. Secretary-General. Ah well, he still made out better than Svet-Icma Alliluyeva, who was identified by 51% as Franco's daughter, Khrushchev's daughter, or "the religious bloke with the Beatles...
...week of his second life by eating steak and eggs, his favorite dish. He took his first hesitant steps, a few yards from his bed to an armchair on a sunny balcony, badgered his wife to bring the family for a visit, and nicknamed the daily blood sampler "Old Dracula." Every other day he got a dose of cobalt-60 radiation that his doctors had or dered in hopes of controlling the expected-indeed, inevitable-attempt by his system to reject the "foreign" heart muscle in his chest. Even so, he was doing so famously in the early part...
...visions actually exist. When Rooks does add detail, it is always relevant; talking about his life at 18-years-old, he describes himself as a creation of 42nd Street and American movies, this partially explaining two drug experiences where Rooks pictures himself as Al Capone and as Dracula (two sequences film critics have incorrectly found self-conscious and arbitrary...
Hunting the wily vampire, a batty professor (Jack MacGowran) and his simpleton assistant (Polanski) come to Dracula country and put up at an inn suspiciously festooned in garlic-a well-known specific against bloodsuckers. Things augur well when the luscious Sharon Tate is savagely fondled and fangled in her bath by caped Count Krolock, who makes off with her into the snowy night, leaving a sinister splash of blood on the soapsuds. But by the time that professor and assistant totter to the rescue with their bag of crucifixes (to ward off the vampires), the plot creaks even more than...
...hard to tell when it gets hotter, but the fad hasn't reached its peak," says Martin Geisler, owner of Manhattan's Per PROTEST BUTTON sonality Posters. Right now the Monkees are the most popular of his 70 posters; other favorites, each for $1, include Chairman Mao, Dracula, the Hell's Angels, Shirley Temple, Humphrey Bogart, Allen Ginsberg in his Uncle Sam suit, and Peter Fonda on a motorcycle. Also prized: the offbeat "You Don't Have to Be Jewish to Love Levy's" subway poster ads for rye bread...