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...occasional attempts to introduce visual fire to her performances, she inclines to what one critic called "the battering-ram approach." This was noticeable again in her Chicago Butterfly, in which, after committing suicide, she flung the knife resoundingly to the floor and died somewhat grotesquely, crawling the width of the stage in response to Pinkerton's thrice-called "Butterfly!" But her real failing, say her harshest critics, is not one of stagecraft but of emotional involvement. While some observers recall her on the verge of tears after a performance of Butterfly, others remember her picking herself up after...
...talker (spieler) turned them in for 72-year-old Jim Jagger, fire eater ("I will amaze you by rubbing the burning torch over various parts of my body and anatomy"), a tattoo artist and human pincushion. The sword swallower put away a 10-in. blade ("I'll ram it down my bread basket and tickle my belly button"). The geek (lowest operator on the lot, a man who pretends to eat live animals) tore the head off a live chicken and ripped at the flesh with his teeth...
Unemployment Compensation. President Eisenhower wanted to extend unemployment compensation benefits-within reason. But House Democrats tried to ram through an all-things-to-all-men bill costing $1.5 billion. The President denounced it as "dole," and a House majority rallied behind him. Result: a $665 million bill extending unemployment benefits up to 15 weeks beyond previous limits...
Ultimate Weapon. In Palm Springs, Calif., after Georgia Mae Love hit her husband on the nose with a claw hammer, stabbed him in the arm with a steak knife, and tried to ram his truck with her Hillman Minx, police booked her for disturbing the peace, discovered a three-foot bullwhip in her brassiere...
Ibec Housing signed a contract with the intergovernmental Pan American Union, which developed the press at the Inter-American Housing Center in Bogota, will pay royalties to the P.A.U. The company expects to sell the Cinva-Ram Block Press at a profit and should find a big market. Close to 2,000 inquiries already have poured in to the P.A.U. and Ibec Housing...