Word: enchantress
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...dinner at Maxim's. But somehow he seemed anything but resentful. At an 18th century costume ball for 600 given by Countess Sheila de Rochambeau at her chateau outside Paris, the duke in lace jabot and Royal Stewart tartan kilt danced the night away with his duchess, an enchantress ablaze in shimmering red cloak and white feathered wig designed by Yves St. Laurent...
...straddling the New York Central tracks by the Hudson shore that is the worst destination of the inhabitants, but a netherworld of damnation. In Metamorphoses, one neighbor has suffered a magical transformation into Actaeon, torn to pieces by his own hounds. In another story, his wife has become the enchantress who converted her daughter into a swimming pool. Even the A. & P. supermarket has been peopled by Cheever with a crowd "moaning and crying" as they are "reviled and taken away" to some enigmatic doom...
Rampage. "The enchantress," the director of the zoo explains excitedly, "is a magnificent accident of nature, half tiger and half leopard." But when the great white hunter (Robert Mitchurn) arrives in Malaya to trap this exotic specimen, he encounters an enchantress (Elsa Martinelli) who is patently another breed of cat. Her eyes are brown, her claws are red, her coat was made by Oleg Cassini. As she glides through the jungle, her tail twitches wickedly and Mitchum's thinning hair stands...
...this trip, he tells himself, I am going to bag one enchantress for the zoo and the other one for myself. But before he can bag one for the zoo he must flush the elusive beast; and before he can bag the other one for himself he must somehow elude the vigilance of her mate (Jack Hawkins), another great white hunter and a mean old man besides. "Every animal," he snarls, "is entitled to kill in order to keep what belongs...
...role of Ruggiero, Mezzo Blanche Thebom flawlessly handled the difficult vocal and dramatic task of portraying a knight who, bewitched by a Circe-like enchantress, has forgotten his past but is gradually regaining his memory. British Mezzo Monica Sinclair, also making her U.S. debut, displayed a fierce, darkly colored voice, matched at every turn by the other principals-U.S. Soprano Joan Marie Moynagh, Italy's Luigi Alva and Nicola Zaccaria. The star of the evening, though, was Sutherland, and she amply lived up to the reputation that had preceded her (TIME, June 13). Her range was wide, secure...