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...Westerners ever fathomed the appeal of Umm Kulthum, the buxom, handkerchief-waving Egyptian singer who was known to her Middle Eastern fans as "the Nightingale of the Nile." She had a stentorian contralto and a quavering wail that grated on the ears of those attuned to the trills of opera divas. But her voice was a near-perfect instrument for expressing the sinuous quarter tones of Arabic music...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The World: Funeral for a Nightingale | 2/17/1975 | See Source »

...third album--Matching Tie and Handkerchief--is a let-down, although the Oscar Wilde party and Cheese Shop routines are excellent the first two times around and the Australian University philosophy department drinking song is something which, if you can't exactly dance...

Author: By Paul K. Rowe, | Title: Of Budgies and Spain | 1/29/1975 | See Source »

...battering of water that had surged over a nearby riverbank. "It was like a wild thing," Pablo Venture told TIME Correspondent Bernard Diederich, who visited the stricken town last week. "Our house turned over and then vanished. Three of our children completely disappeared." Wiping his eyes with a dirty handkerchief, Juan Ramirez sobbed, "Dios mio! What has happened to us? My wife died, and now the water has taken seven of my beloved grandchildren...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: DISASTERS: A Hurricane in Honduras | 10/7/1974 | See Source »

...director Tunc Yalman maintains the verbose proceedings at a lively pace and uses the play's plentiful with to maximum advantage with frequent humorous bits of business. Some of Yolman's devices seem toofar-fetched, such as when he sends Mrs. Tarleton rushing to place her handkerchief over a small skull displayed on the writing table during a speech about her dead child. But countless other touches are hilarious and enhance Shaw's clever dialogue...

Author: By Elizabeth Samuels, | Title: Misalliance | 8/2/1974 | See Source »

Even more popular than the effects is the vast array of magic literature. Some dozen magazines promise knowledge that only the ancients possessed. Perhaps the least savory is Chaos, a Canadian publication devoted to blue magic-a handkerchief under its direction can easily be folded into the shape of female genitalia. The most conscientious is the brilliantly edited monthly the Pallbearers Review. Despite its name, the Review is a shrewd, technical publication that separates the amateurs from the prose. Editor Karl Fulves has no patience with those who boast of occult powers, and specializes in explaining the mechanics...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: The Magic Boom: New Sorcery | 7/22/1974 | See Source »

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