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...taken for a beak. The girdle is an ancient Middle Eastern symbol of power, worn by lion-strangling heroes in the bloody days of Assurnasirpal. The powerfully striding thighs are molded with an easy naturalism virtually unknown until the time of the Greeks, yet the cylindrical form and spellbound air of the entire figure are pre-Grecian. The boots are even odder than the horned helmet they counterpoint. Hittite sculptures sometimes have upturned toes, but never so exaggerated. A few experts guess that the boots are a sort of combination ski and snowshoe, pointing to a mountain origin, yet most...
...writing Scarf ace, which made between $2,000,000 and $4,000,000 net for the studio. Sam Goldwyn paid me $50,000 for Wuthering Heights, and all Sam made was a million. David Selznick, the finest boss I had in Hollywood, paid me $75,000for Spellbound, and his net profit was about $3,000,000. I wrote Notorious for RKO and the studio paid me $75,000, which was peanuts compared with the $4,000,000 profit on the film...
...London's literati could not resist his sombrero, chaps, and jangling spurs-or his tall tales. Dante Gabriel Rossetti watched wide-eyed when Joaquin put two cigars in his mouth, lit them up, and bellowed, "That's the way we do it in the States!" Others stood spellbound as he told of lassoing buffalo as they stampeded down Beacon Street in Boston...
...used by Alban Berg in Wozzeck and by Gian-Carlo Menotti in his more popular Consul. Salzburg first-nighters, remembering Von Einem's earlier, impressive opera, Danton's Death (TIME, Aug. 18, 1947), came with high hopes. But by the final curtain, they found themselves less than spellbound, responded with lukewarm applause...
Millions of Americans remember him best as a television star, a skinny, wrathful old man with the fervor of an evangelist. For weeks in 1951, as the Kefauver crime investigation held the U.S. public spellbound before their TV sets, New Hampshire's Senator Charles William Tobey stole scene after scene from Estes Kefauver, Rudolph Halley and the parade of squirming gangsters and sweating politicians. Tobey's righteous anger touched a responsive public nerve. Most of the watching public wanted, as Tobey did. to cut the gangsters down to size. His Yankee homilies, Bible quotations and Latin cliches were...