Word: hauntingly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...says a friend, "the past has a way of hounding Betty. She tries to look out the windshield, but there are always things there in the rearview mirror." Among the things are TV's endless Bogie-Bacall festivals. "Those movies," she says ruefully, "always come back to haunt me on that damn box." And there are the Bogie biographies, five released within the last year. "The paperback ones are written by hungry guys trying to get in on the madness and make a buck," she complains. "And the hard-covers aren't a hell of a lot better...
...think the competition from the Twins will be any tougher than it was from the Yankees when we beat them four straight in 1963." Now that was too much-even for Minnesota's mildmannered manager, Sam Mele. "Cracks like that have a habit of coming back to haunt a guy," snarled Mele. "The Dodgers are in for a surprise...
...music." He had come "too soon," he decided. "The child (America) was not old enough to appreciate new music." Out of "sheer despair" he plunged into a new opera, The Flaming Angel-a manic-depressive nightmare set to unmelodic music. Last week, like some dark specter returned to haunt the scene of the crime, the opera was given its U.S. premiere by the enterprising New York City Opera company. Consensus was that even if America is now old enough, it is still not ready to embrace Angel as opera...
...feverish immediacy that sometimes lacks subtlety but never lacks sting. The quasi-fictional Miguelin has no dream of glory at the outset. A spunky, mop-topped Andalusian peasant, he flees the arduous life on his father's farm, drifts into that gypsy band of hot-eyed hopefuls who haunt every Spanish bull ring, courting fame with a scarlet muleta. Before a bull's horns end his short unhappy career, he attains wealth, loneliness, a retinue of greedy hangers-on, a house for his mother, a fast convertible and faster women-one a sleek, actressy adventuress named Linda...
...plot perks right along without her. Having learned Andi's identity, Ireland closes in during the whee hours when open windows, flashing cutlery and hairbreadth escapes are apt to achieve maximum impact among teenagers. Any who are hooked on horror shows will find every reason to haunt Castle's. Their parents may prefer to stay home and sneak in a few phone calls...