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...girl dying in her Italian mountaintop villa, has lost fire. When Hermione Baddeley played Flora, the dark power of death was as chilling as her nighttime screams. The second Mrs. Goforth, Tallulah Bankhead, seems to regard death as part of the servant problem, a petty retainer whom she can sack with a throaty rumble of brandy-voiced regality. Perhaps actressing is a better word for her performance than acting...
...African was arrested in June. "When I reached the police station," he says, "I was told to undress except for my trousers. One African policeman was called and handcuffed me with my hands behind my back and a sack over my head. On my small fingers electric wires were connected to a current. I cried and fell down. If it fell lose it would be inserted under my trousers. I was knocked with fists and sticks. I then promised to talk...
...most other respects, has the constitutional right to institute impeachment proceedings against the President by a simple majority vote. Disregarding election laws, government officials campaigned for Democratic-Republican candidates, and police made house-to-house canvasses. So blatant were some of the tactics that Park was forced to sack two Cabinet members to still the opposition outcry. At the same time, to build up his regime's democratic image, Park ordered an amnesty for political prisoners, publicly permitted exiled former President Syngman Rhee, 88, to return to his native land (ailing in Hawaii, Rhee declined). From Washington, where...
Curator Cavallo is fascinated by the affinities between the clothes and the architecture of the same period. He is not concerned with analogues of shape-stovepipe hats and railroad smokestacks, skyscrapers and sack dresses-but the way a period's characteristic modes of thought and feeling similarly influence the look of a building, or a table, or a woman...
...given sanctuary at the home of the U.S. ambassador, and his staff was taken under police protection to a hotel. But still the rampage continued. Rioters wrecked the 119-year-old British Club and plowed up its cricket field and tennis courts, then moved on to sack suburban homes of British residents. Getting into the act, the Indonesian government seized all British business firms in the country "in the interest of their safety," but denied that this heralded a sweeping new nationalization order...