Word: enchantress
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...what is the secret of this ageless enchantress? Can concentration be the answer? The columnist Joseph Kraft remarked that she is "an eloquent listener." Her brilliant blue eyes never rake the room but stay focused on her companion. "She coaxes secrets out of men because she works at it," observes Holbrooke, just named ambassador to Germany. "When she goes after a man, he is a goner...
...gave an Olympics and everybody came? Answer, at Albertville and Barcelona: thrills aplenty. And spills. If the figure skaters' jitters deprived them of perfection, it hyped the competition, so fiercely did they fight just to keep on their feet. Star quality counts too. Hungary's Henrietta Onodi, an elf-enchantress, took silver in gymnastics but gold in viewers' eyes...
...approach this teeming, impacted port that Joan Maragall, Barcelona's greatest turn-of-the-century poet and grandfather of the city's present mayor, Pasqual Maragall, called la gran encisera -- the great enchantress? Only in terms of its own history -- one not always shared with the rest of Spain, and often in opposition to it. Barcelona is a very old city, founded by the Romans late in the 1st century B.C.; their massive walls, topped by medieval additions, still encircle its core...
...course, most men have mind's-eye astigmatism too. A late-'80s father has a hard time visualizing himself tooling along the Corniche above Monte Carlo in a bottle-green Aston Martin, with a bottle-yellow enchantress in the passenger seat. Reality is deadly stuff. What men do is put in long hours in front of the tube, thanklessly exposing their eyeballs to radiation because not to know at work the next day precisely how the Red Sox lost yet another game is to risk career prolapsus. Working women may still spend three hours a day doing housework and their...
...title Martyr, and all those nude beauties frolicking around that white-bearded codger represent Lovis Corinth's Temptation of Saint Anthony. Exotic suggestions of bestiality (as with Salammbo) provided another popular theme. Arthur Wardle's Bacchante cavorts with a whole herd of amorous leopards, and Frederick Stuart Church's Enchantress strolls through the wilderness with two tigers "whose growling jaws suggested the vagina dentata which turn-of-the-century men feared they might find hidden beneath this . . . beauty's decorous gown...