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...Louis' Riviera. In most of them, the singer perches on a dime-sized platform above the bar and tries to make himself heard above the jingle of the cash register and the jangle of the audience. And it was in just such places that Rawls learned how to grab attention by spitting out rapid-fire monologues about anything that came to mind. Then, when everybody sat up to ask "What did he say?", he would slyly slide into a song...
Hyland's Hörna is Swedish TV's weekly family funfest, attracting about 40% of the nation's 7.8 million population to its low-key grab bag of chatter, mystery guests, songs and good cheer...
...hotspurs represented by Albert Finney and Robert Stephens. Indeed, Scofield, 44, is pretty much a generation all to himself; once Richard Burton shared that status, but as Burton confided to a friend, "When I saw Scofield act, I knew I could never be that great, so I decided to grab the loot...
...mystique of kingship recedes into the mists of prehistory. Kings were not merely the well-muscled types who could grab the best females and strong-arm the rest of the tribe. They were magic-the precious contact between little groups of fearful humans and the awful forces of fertility or famine, prosperity or plague. These magic men were precious possessions, to be carefully guarded against contamination or capture. Sometimes they were incarcerated in darkness to keep them from the influence of the sun and moon, sometimes they were prevented from even touching the ground for fear that the earth might...
...development so far has swelled to $350 million, may well top $1 billion before the first U.S. model goes into service about 1974, three years after the smaller, slower Anglo-French Concorde. U.S. planemakers now argue that further delay in building the U.S. SST could let the European plane grab the market. The stakes are huge, not only for industry but also for the precarious U.S. balance of payments. By Lockheed estimates, the world market for 900 SSTs by 1985 should bring the nation $38.6 billion in foreign trade...