Word: maelstrom
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Through a grisly stage illusion, play-goers not only see a man guillotined but watch his head fall into a basket. To conclude this opening maelstrom of mayhem, Dr. Frankenstein opens the coffin of a dying girl for an operation to remove her beating heart and thus begin his monster. The spectacle is vivid enough to sicken some audiences, but Alan Brien, drama critic of London's Sunday Telegraph, insists that "the sequence is an eyeopener to those who believe the theater cannot match the cinema in projecting images of violence and pain...
...height of the midday shopping hour, Catherine Seydel, a 22-year-old student, picked out a dress she liked and entered a third-floor booth to try it on. Suddenly she heard a thunderous rumble on the floor above her. When she emerged from the booth, she entered a maelstrom of fear and panic. In rapid succession, flames had erupted in at least three locations around the store. Two of the store's 15 full-time firemen-the building had no sprinklers-tried to douse the flames with hand extinguishers, but retreated in the fast-gathering heat and smoke...
...states and the District of Columbia is a 90-minute documentary, China: The Roots of Madness, written by Theodore White (The Making of a President) and produced by David Wolper. It traces the course of China from 1850 to 1950, and while it fails to cope with the current maelstrom, it is a remarkably good slice of history. Wednesday, February 1 BOB HOPE PRESENTS THE CHRYSLER THEATER (NBC, 9-10 p.m.).-Bradford Dillman and Alex Cord play billiards for a fortune and Jean Simmons...
...beea edging toward friendship with Peking, now finds itself peering un- comfortably into an abyss. Most of all, China's travail tears at the millions of overseas Chinese who are scattered around the mainland periphery, many of whom have families back home that are caught in the maelstrom...
...KILLING OF SISTER GEORGE. A radio heroine, beloved by millions for her sweetness and generosity, makes life a maelstrom for her intimates with her tyrannical temper and oppressive ways. Comedienne Beryl Reid makes British Playwright Frank Marcus' lesbian protagonist a most believable bully...