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...Witnessing this weakness was jarring for someone who adored her grandfather in a way overawed children often do, that sort of spell-bound attachment to things that seem rare and superhuman. My annual summer visits to my grandparents’ California home had always promised new examples of his ingenuity: An apple tree he had recently planted with that plump fruit down there growing just for me, a nifty contraption for picking oranges that would later leave my lips raw and stinging from the acid, and ramps and pulleys of all kinds to ease my late grandmother?...
Like Cézanne, Ablow toys with the construction of space. Ablow paints objects on the brink of chaos and objects that appear as if they could collapse on themselves any moment. Coupled with their stability, this tension is what brings the viewer back, spell-bound, to Ablow’s work...
...skull here, the tinkling of a mystical bell there, the rhythmic beat of the conga drum, and the calling voices in the background all weave a pattern that leaves the listener spell-bound. Dr. John didn't learn to play the guitar in a bar on the South Side of Chicago but from Sister Eunice at The Temple of Innocent Blood. And he didn't get his "soul" in Memphis, but from the bayous of Louisiana. Strange, very strange...
Astronaut Scott Carpenter held the College spell-bound for the better part of an hour early in examination period: about the same time John Briston Sullivan, a local speculator-promoter-businessman, produced a different kind of uneasiness by threatening to sink a large, ugly, barge in the middle of the Charles River Basin The move would have been part of Sullivan's grand strategy against a group of Boston businessmen in the struggle for riverfront land control; as Cambridge yachtsmen watched aghast, Sullivan turned to other, less dramatic tactics and decided not to sink the barge after all. Sullivan...
During an hour-and-a-half talk that held his audience spell-bound, William A. Rusher, Publisher of the National Review, concentrated on two main topics: the "psychic difficulties of the West," and the mistakes that cost Nixon the Presidency...