Word: skulls
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...demon is haunting the movie world. It looks, as many have remarked, like a brilliantly personable werewolf. The figure is tall, bony and shambling. The green eyes burn with strange intensity in a high, narrow skull. The teeth are long and peculiarly pointed. The smile is a little twisted, evoking for the nightmare-prone the grimace of a hanged man. The demon is in effect an immensely creative spirit which has seized for its habitation the son of a Swedish parson, and for its instrument the motion-picture camera...
...Little Theater tryout she met a young lawyer, Dick Nixon. They were cast in the leading roles of The Dark Tower, and Lawyer Nixon immediately began a dogged, offstage courtship. He learned to dance, nearly fractured his skull trying to ice skate-and according to an oft-told story, he even drove Pat to dates with other young men in Los Angeles, waiting around to drive her home...
...Washington Irving's tale, Tom Walker, Yankee miser, accidentally kicks up a skull in the woods and is admonished by a guardian devil named Old Scratch. His wife loses body and soul to Old Scratch, but wily Tom sells his soul only, and for hard cash. "Lend the money," the devil suggests, "at 2% a month." "Egad," replies Tom, "I'll charge...
...ratings, such characters as a self-styled lady killer, a brash mistress and a hysterical maid, such props as a "do-it-yourself murder kit" and a gift Cadillac-and centering around Finch's wife Barbara, found dead last summer with a bullet in her back and three skull fractures. On trial with Finch for her murder was his mistress, Carole Tregoff...
...Phoenician woman who was cursed by the prophet Elijah. Eventually, a later conqueror fulfilled Elijah's curse by having her thrown from a window, trampled to death by horses, and eaten by dogs. "And they went to bury her, but they found no more of her than the skull, and the feet, and the palms of her hands...