Word: spellbound
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...Crick, visiting professor of explained his latest genetics to a spellbound, overflow of more than 400 at yesterday. Crick and J.D. Watson Professor of Biology, are the of the Watson-Crick model of acid DNA, considered one outstanding achievements...
Exit Beckett. Enter Fannie Hurst, at her gurgliest, to provide a happy ending: the slob, who is really Prince Charming in disguise, wakes the spellbound heroine with the magic of his love, and they live happily ever after-in that dingy little basement apartment...
...Malamud remains as expert as before in his persuasive alternations of farce and sadness, the tender Chekhovian qualities that have marked all his work. His hero, Levin, is a born victim of circumstance: if he holds a baby on his lap, it wets him; if he holds a class spellbound, it is only because his fly is open. He is a man with a rage for justice, and an inner compulsion to keep "on paying for being alive." But in all his straining leaps toward the highest goals, he is scarcely capable of getting his two left feet...
...Cannes, three hooded bandits carrying submachine guns stole $40,000 in gems from a jewelry store while scores of tourists, out for their midafternoon promenade, watched spellbound. In Nice seven hoods burst into the Casino, shouted "Hands up'' in a French accent, took $4,000. At Beaulieu thieves even burgled the city hall, escaped with $450 in cash and stamps. One untouched enclave: Monte Carlo, perhaps because Princess Grace once romped cinematically around the Riviera with retired Cat Man Gary Grant as he unraveled a series of robberies in Alfred Hitchcock's To Catch a Thief...
...Ignatius Walsh, first Irishman ever elected to the U.S. Senate from Massachusetts. Walsh was some times a trial: whenever he paid a call, he insisted on quizzing Larry on his American history and catechism. But Curley was another, headier cup of tea: as a bug-eyed boy, Larry listened spellbound as his father and Curley conspired like Sinn Feiners about the ways to break the hated Yankee Republican grip on western Massachusetts. And always there was a recurrent theme: "Our kitchen used to be the place where some of the boys would meet, and my father would...