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...Sheik foresook his kingdom to come to America to fulfill his life's burning ambition--to beat America's greatest matmen. The Prince uses extra-professional tactics which some whimpering idiots claim to be unethical. Before a match, for example, he sometimes goes into a trance and puts a spell on his hapless opponent. Other times he makes balls of fire emanate from his fingertips. He has been known to burn the eyes out of the sockets of his helpless victims...

Author: By Nick Eberstadt, | Title: Some Notes on Big-Time Wrestling | 4/15/1976 | See Source »

...present volume of letters ends with her engagement to Leonard Woolf, a name she was at first unable to spell. (In letters to friends announcing her engagement, she calls him Leonard "Wolf.") According to Virginia, Leonard found her writing the best part of her. She repeated gleefully his promise that "if I cease to write when married, I shall be divorced...

Author: By John Sedgwick, | Title: A Painter at Her Easel | 4/13/1976 | See Source »

...struck message created a stir. The Christian Science Monitor called the program a "time bomb" while the Wall Street Journal rated it "one of the most important pieces of TV journalism ever, and spellbinding besides." Still, most sober observers of world affairs are not likely to fall under his spell. Example: Sovietologist Richard Lowenthal has sorrowfully expressed his amazement at Solzhenitsyn's "utter disaccord with the facts of recent international history." Lowenthal points out that not all defeats for the West, as for instance in Indochina, are caused by surrender to the Soviet Union-or China...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: OPINION: A Doom-Struck Message | 4/5/1976 | See Source »

...Booksellers Association Newsletter lists dozens of authors who are currently hopping-or dragging -from city to city to hustle their books. The stops include talk shows, newspaper interviews, luncheons and appearances in department stores to autograph hundreds of copies. "You find out just how many ways there are to spell Arlene," says Christopher Porterfield, co-author with Dick Cavett of Cavett...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Flogging It | 4/5/1976 | See Source »

...metamorphoses into God's Own Drunk and a fearless man, then sees "The Bear...a Kodiak-looking feller, bout 19 feet tall," who rambles over and "looks me in the eyes, and mine were a lot redder than his. It hung him up." It's not enough because the spell is shattered--Buffett succumbed just once, but it's shadow of things to come...

Author: By Tom Blanton, | Title: Bashed and Buffetted | 3/25/1976 | See Source »

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