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Gehlen turned the gentleman's avocation of spying - Sir John Master man still compares it to cricket - into big business. But Hohne and Zolling argue that, despite all his thermos-flask cameras and secret, secret ink, he still couldn't keep up with the times. Forced into retirement in 1968, he sat in his study on Lake Starnberg with a death mask of Frederick the Great looking down and wrote his memoirs (due out later this year) rather like Buffalo Bill after the frontier went thataway. For spying, like everything else, has gone automated...
...monk. He has not been to a movie for 21 months, is almost never seen at parties or restaurants, and has very few friends in Hollywood. On taping days, he lives on little more than milk and honey, or the turkey noodle soup that he carries in a flask everywhere he goes-his life is awash in turkey noodle soup. "I mustn't eat a full meal before taping because I'll be sluggish," he says, "and it'll throw my timing...
...church was commissioning more elaborately naturalistic works. There is still a trace of Gothic rigor in the sweeping cloak of its lindenwood Mary Magdalene, but in all other respects she is almost a portrait, down to the look of pleased anticipation on her broad face as she uncaps the flask to anoint Christ's feet...
Hoping to transmit the gene to the human cells, the scientists placed a solution of the gene-bearing viruses in a lab flask containing the cells. Then they incubated the culture at body temperatures in an atmosphere enriched with carbon dioxide. The next step was more subtle: to determine whether the viruses had actually invaded the cells and insinuated their genetic instructions into them. If the genetic transfer had really taken place, the researchers reasoned, the cells would begin issuing their own instructions for making the enzyme...
...Alda is too flattered to listen. When Jurgens suddenly dies of leukemia, Alda, who has resumed his musical career, takes over the master's concert dates and an incestuous love affair with Parkins. His wife, in the meantime, has stumbled on some evidence (a book of incantations, a flask of mysterious blue oil, more or less the usual things) that strongly suggests that her husband's new-found musical talents are at least uncanny, and probably a good deal more. During the rest of the picture she pays, as they say, a dear price for such knowledge...