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...John Ehrlichman after four days before the unblinking camera eye comes across as Attila the Hun, perhaps that, too, is a step toward the truth...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY by HUGH SIDEY: The Country Lawyer and Friends | 8/6/1973 | See Source »

...musicians ever look at a conductor in exactly the same way. Where Friedman sees the metaphysical and Nilsson a mellower Solti, Flutist Debost sees the diabolical: "There is something of the wolf or the Hun about Solti. As he conducts, his eyes turn into cracks, his ears become pointed, and you can sort of imagine him riding a horse bareback across the steppes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Solti and Chicago: A Musical Romance | 5/7/1973 | See Source »

...skunks and smashed guitars, among other things. He does not make lots of money, but people who've seen him have fun, even though a lot of them think he's pretty warped. But he's not, at least not any more so than Martin Mull. Or Atilla the Hun. --F.V.B...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Pop | 3/15/1973 | See Source »

...away from the commitment to sorcery and back into the mundane world. He has a very real urge to be a respected writer and anthropologist, and to use his new found power of fame in tandem with the printed word to go on communicating glimpses of other realities to hun gry readers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Don Juan and the Sorcerer's Apprentice | 3/5/1973 | See Source »

Charles Bronson, who resembles a housebroken Attila the Hun, stars as the vocal and murderous Valachi. An American by birth, Bronson played a lot of character roles in movies like The Great Escape before becoming a star in Europe, where his poignant struggle with polysyllables is presumably lost in translation. The Valachi Papers, shot almost totally in Rome, is in English, a bad break for Bronson, worse luck for the scenarist and the rest...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Gangster Genealogy | 11/13/1972 | See Source »

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