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...Britain joined with the Israelis in an indignant protest at the murder of their nationals. Despite the silken talk at Geneva, the Curtain still was made of Iron...
...from Orson's putting out a candle with the flat of his hand to a murderous shambles in a Turkish bath where Roderigo (Robert Coote) is trapped and killed, screaming beneath a slatted runway. When Welles strangles Desdemona, it is the most artistic strangling ever: he presses a silken scarf over her face, outlining every agonized feature just as if a nylon stocking had been pulled over her head. When Welles stabs himself, there is a good five minutes of reeling walls and ceilings as he takes his time about dying...
When Historian Louis Booker Wright took over as director of Washington's Folger Shakespeare Library in July 1948, he found the entrance to the reading room barred by a red silken rope and two guards. He promptly ordered the rope sent to the attic, cut the guard force by a third, put the remaining guards to work as janitors. Said Wright: "I came here to make an institution come alive, not to preside over a mausoleum...
...Tycoon Henry Clay Folger to house his vast, scattered hoard of Shakespeariana, the library was run almost like an exclusive club. Only scholars known to its staffers could gain access to its books and manuscripts-after writing in advance. Even the favored few were stopped by the silken rope, had to sit on a bench until a staff member came to escort them to the books. As a result, days went by without a single visitor gracing the reading room. Virtually untouched were its great prizes: 79 Shakespeare First Folios (no other library has more than four...
...fortified stronghold where the Imam lives with his harem, the royal treasure, an arsenal of modern weapons, and a 150-man guard. From the palace window came a shout: "What is it you want? Tell me what you want," cried the sexagenarian Imam who, in his fringed turbans and silken robes, bears a striking resemblance to Charles Laughton playing Henry VIII. When the soldiers called back that it was time he got off the throne, he dodged back, reappeared with a Tommy gun. But they told him the game was up, the country and the Council of Elders were with...