Word: ghosts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Despite the gray, overcast weather and the sparse crowd which gave spacious Braves Field almost a ghost-like atmosphere, the two local colleges turned in some exceptional early season baseball...
Wenner-Gren's associates prudently hired an obeah (Bahamian voodoo) ghost (?10 from a local ghost renter) to assure success at the opening. As any obeah-minded Bahamian could have predicted, this precaution worked; the ghost, one Richard Crotch in life, worked silently and invisibly to bring the necessary luck. Such corporeal visitors as Prince and Princess Alexis Obolensky, Mrs. Winston Guest, Sir Victor Sassoon, Mrs. Bernard Gimbel and Metropolitan Opera Tenor Jussi Bjoerling materialized from amphibians that made 40 nights in and out. Other guests, before and since: Danny Kaye, the Countess of Leicester, Brenda Frazier Kelly...
Senator Bricker's own brain child, an amendment to his original resolution, gave up the ghost quietly enough, but the protracted anguish came on the question of final Senate passage for a milder proposal that had been submitted by Georgia's Democratic Senator Walter George...
...result, the film version of Jane Eyre often resembles the peculiar combination of ghost story and murder mystery, lacking only the corpse and the supernatural. It is bombastic, thoroughly enjoyable, and, of course, a fitting vehicle for Orson Welles. In appearance alone, Welles is a perfect Edward Rochester, who emerges dramatically out of the mists possessing a mysterious character to be explained only as the secrets of the past are discovered. In time, the past becomes obvious, but not before Welles forcefully displays the contradictory elements in Rochester, a man whom Miss Bronte describes as having a fine should hidden...
...Service, mostly from the Kunsthaus in Zurich. After New York, the 64-picture Fuseli show will go to Cleveland, Detroit, St. Louis and Baltimore. Most of the pictures have an extravagant, stagelike quality; men and women gesture and posture elaborately, as in The Witches Show Macbeth Banquo's Ghost. Macbeth, a heroic, anatomically detailed nude, holds an outstretched hand against the apparition conjured up by the three hags. There are also a few amorous scenes, such as The Kiss, in which the lovers' bodies are passionately contorted, suggestive of the meticulously executed pornographic studies which Fuseli turned...