Word: sorceresses
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...Kalthoum sings of love, of the bittersweet pangs of passions lost or longed for, unfurling verse upon verse of ballads that last for over an hour. Like a sorceress weaving a spell, she sings on and on, spinning variations on the same simple phrases, until 3 a.m. Then her millions of listeners, feeling spent, exhilarated and somehow cleansed by this solemn ceremony of joy, return to normalcy-until the next time...
...human sympathy from me. I am your very good friend, but hard as nails." Busy too. "No," he wrote to Alice Lockett, a non-bluestocking who wanted a date in a week in which he had to do three articles and two lectures. "See you this week! Avaunt, sorceress: not this month -not until next July. Remember my pleasures are music, conversation, the grapple of my intelligence with fresher ones. All this I can sweeten with a kiss [but] beware. When all love has gone out of me, I am remorseless: I hurl the truth about like destroying lightning...
...largest party in Parliament, sat through the sessions on Constantine's left hand. He was openly contemptuous of the palace's "lures of power," which, with his orator's gift for a telling phrase, he had likened publicly to those of Circe, Ulysses' sorceress, whose lures transformed men into pigs. "Do you think," he asked Constantine, rhetorically, "that if you can get 115 Deputies in Parliament [i.e., a bare majority], you can face the people and me?" His own siren song consisted of the familiar demand for national elections, which, by way of a compromise...
...under his roof. With the arrival of the present TV season, many another is probably wishing that he could exchange his incumbent hag for Elizabeth Montgomery. Pretty and blonde with a turned-up nose, she hardly suggests cauldrons full of rat guts and eels, but she plays a thoroughbred sorceress married to an advertising executive on ABC's Bewitched...
...This sorceress is named Pat Collins, and for practicing her hypnotic arts on the screenland patrons of The Interlude on Sunset Strip, she is paid a hypnotic $3,000 a week. Her two-hour act is as varied as the volunteers who participate, but the formula is always the same. Hypnoteuse Collins, rigged out in plunging neckline, black mesh stockings and assorted bangles, summons volunteers to the stage, where she addresses them in a staccato chant: "Your arms are getting very heavy, every muscle in your body is relaxed ..." Most of her customers go under like sounding marlins, but occasionally...