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...contract was signed on Feb. 7. Transporting the painting to the U.S. involved security precautions and scientific hugger-mugger worthy of Maxwell Smart. Code name for the painting was "the Bird." To transport Ginevra, a $52.95 American Tourister three-suiter was lined with Styrofoam that would cushion any bumps or jolts. But before the Bird could be nested, there were the problems of humidity and temperature to solve; in the Prince's vaults, where Ginevra had been kept, the temperature is 44°, humidity 55%. If the wood-panel oil heated or dried too quickly, the paint surface might...
...from the poppy field of Persia to the junk shops of Harlem whip out their trusty Geiger counter and go lickety-click from Teheran to Geneva to Naples to Nice. En route they run a grim gauntlet of all-too-familiar thriller scenes (bang-bang on the Blue Train, hugger-mugger on the bad guy's yacht, hack-the-stripper in a nudie nightspot) and unpleasantly overripe chestnuts ("How'll we get there-take the midnight camel?"). By the time the heroes get the heroin the customers may find themselves in something of a narcoma. The very best...
...Peronista visitors from Argentina. Later, as always, Perón went upstairs to watch television, which invariably occupies him until Spain's only channel goes off the air at 12:30 a.m. Instead, with The Untouchables turned up full blast inside, Perón suddenly embarked on a hugger-mugger exploit of his own that was to make world headlines, involve half a dozen governments, and end in a greater deflation for Perón than any event since his ouster from Argentina nine years...
...Flattered." Johnson is a backslapper, a shoulder hugger, a knee squeezer. "I like to press the flesh," he says, "and look a man in the eye." He is also a necktie fixer (he once lined up all the men in his office staff, carefully straightened their ties, and then demonstrated his own artistic method of knotting a necktie once and for all the first time he puts it on, carefully loosening it at night and slipping it over his head still perfectly knotted). These small attentions are disconcerting to some, but they are nonetheless genuine and sincere-and never more...
...armed brother of the hero (Charlton Heston), displays what one publicist has described as "175 pounds of dreamy meat." The boy is a skillful actor. At one point he even manages to steal a scene from Heroine Anne Baxter, who is probably the most relentless camera-hugger in the business...