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...couple of weeks later, we were having a snowball fight at 2 o'clock in the morning at the Rockefeller Center skating rink. She threw pretty well, but I'm competitive and I have this hex on her. Anyway, I very delicately washed her face with snow and then kind of touched her lips. It wasn't very demonstrative. She's desperately insecure. She always thought of herself as an ugly duckling, and she made herself up to be weird as a defense. She liked me. I was the first person who liked her back...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Broadway: The Girl | 4/10/1964 | See Source »

Solemn Bows. Vexations' première proved it to be in many ways Satie's finest joke. After even a dozen hearings, the music became more a hex than a vex, its funereal tune permanently etched in everyone's ear. The august New York Times dispatched eight critics in two-hour relays to cover the performance and gave 101 column inches to an account the next day. One critic, who signed in as "Anon," confessed he had slept through his stint, but another, who took over the keyboard himself when one of Cage's men failed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Recitals: Shoot the Piano Players | 9/20/1963 | See Source »

...arms of an artist and would-be lover (Stanley Kolk), and dies of a heart attack. She marries the artist, but he, in turn, commits suicide when he discovers that Lulu is still in love with Schon, an abusive former lover. Schon tries to escape the Lulu hex with another woman, but Lulu later shoots him to death. And the round of grasping, joyless love goes on. Thoroughly depraved, Lulu even becomes involved with her stepson and a lesbian named Countess Geschwitz. Eventually she destroys both of them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Opera: The Hellish Drive | 8/16/1963 | See Source »

...Foreign Minister Mohammed Khemisti, who had been shot by a crazed assassin (see MILESTONES). On top of all that, a most unusual tornado swept across the country, killing twelve Algerians in one village. Many a superstitious Algerian peasant was convinced that the Egyptian visitor had brought a hex with him. But there was a more concrete reason for the disappointment Nasser took with him last week when he pulled up anchor and sailed away three days earlier than planned. From host Ahmed ben Bella, Algeria's young Premier, Nasser had gotten hearty cordiality and words of acclaim...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Algeria: A Hex? | 5/17/1963 | See Source »

...told, 20 men were injured as the teams from eleven nations tried their skill -and luck-on the Igls run. Only the Italians seemed immune to the hex of the Hexenkessel. Led by Eugenio Monti, 35, six times world champion in two-man bobs, and Sergio Zardini, 31, a wiry hotel manager from Cortina, Italy's daredevils placed first and second in both the two-man and four-man events. Monti's best time for the two-man bob: 1 min. 6.4 sec., for 51 m.p.h. average...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: The Witches' Pot | 2/15/1963 | See Source »

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