Word: hypnotists
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...again, currently in this recording by Actress Hermione Gingold and Countertenor Russell Oberlin, with Thomas Dunn conducting the small chamber ensemble. Unfortunately for them, Dame Edith herself, with Peter Pears, has performed the work for London Records. Where Gingold dramatizes the poems, Sitwell chants her surrealistic lines like a hypnotist, sometimes at breakneck speed. "We sought to reach a country between music and poetry, like the border between waking and dreaming." Sir Osbert Sitwell has explained. Gingold and Oberlin are too wide-awake...
Whatever it sounds like, this is not a stage show. The hypnotist uses no eye fixation in the manner of the traditional mesmerist, and the performance is in the office of a reputable San Francisco psychiatrist, who is convinced that it speeds treatment even for seriously disturbed patients...
...Tout." His own voice, when in use, is faintly Flatbush-full of lines like "I sen tout for coffee" and "I had a friend of mine who . . ." The fourth child of a New York lawyer, he had been an actor, magician, mentalist and hypnotist when he tried his first commercial-as a talking flashlight battery-eight years ago. Soon, for another commercial that was used repeatedly, he got $1,700 instead of the $45 he had expected. He called the agency to see if there had been a mistake and, when told that there had not been, decided to enter...
...accomplished hypnotist, Betsy Drake put Cary to sleep at various times and caused him to stop smoking and drinking. Together they explored Oriental religions, transcendentalism, mysticism and yoga. Grant claims that through her he learned how to put one side of his jaw to sleep when a dentist happened to be drilling there. For 3½ years they have been intimately estranged, living apart, dating each other frequently, taking trips together. Once at a Broadway show, Gary saw her come in with another man. "There's my wife," he said to his own companion. "Isn't she beautiful...
...entire city, and beyond that a mountain and beyond that the sky. The fastidiously constructed lithograph is less than 9 in. tall and 7 in. wide; yet the viewer can stay lost in it for minutes. It is not only the work of a gifted technician but of a hypnotist who has the power to hold...