Word: hypnotist
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...Hall stage, real Show Biz. They play with a studied boredom because they know people are not there to see rock musicians. They are just filler-in the Show Biz tradition-to keep the marks quiet until the start of the big act. Shawn Masters, the world's Greatest Hypnotist...
...know what I was expecting when I went to see the World's Greatest Hypnotist: Evil Eye Fleagle, Mandrake, Dr. Strange. I'd seen his handbills: A long shot of him standing on a girl who was stretched, entranced, between two chairs. "The Man-The Legend," it said. Everyone must be disappointed when they meet the World's Greatest. He's just a human being: no two-tone eyebrows, no electricity oozing from the fingertips...
That domination determines both their fates. When they meet again accidentally after the Anschluss, Wirthof has joined the SS and become an unthinking mouthpiece for Nazi ideology. Kazakh, a purposeless intellectual uncertain about his future or his feelings, has turned from engineering to become a hypnotist and a pioneer in advertising with nouveau riche connections. Curiously, it is Kazakh who comes closest to being a callous cynic. Wirthof, despite his crass behavior in bordellos, his egotistic mistreatment of acquaintances and his sensual brutality, is actually the overemotional romantic...
...hunching his shoulders and reeling around like Quasimodo doing the lindy-still bring serious letters from shut-ins commending his courage for appearing despite such an obviously bad case of Bell's palsy. Jabbing and pointing his finger like a traffic cop, he once brought on a hypnotist with the familiar "Here he is!" and poked the poor fellow...
More of the Shame. The voice belonged not to a hypnotist but to Lee Strasberg, 65, director of the Actors Studio, teaching method acting for the first time in Europe. "You seemed even to have run through a wall," he scolded after the actress' first effort to follow his commands. "When you smoked a cigarette, you held your fingers together as though you were sucking them. The cigarette had no taste, no reality. Now let's try again...