Word: spooked
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Bass did the credits of West Side Story, scrawled on grimy walls like four-letter words. He drew the fixed and crippled hand of The Man with the Golden Arm and the jig-sawed corpse of Anatomy of a Murder. For Alfred Hitchcock's Vertigo, he let his spook imagination run on even further. He began with a vulture-close view of a human eye, then moved in side the eye. where spinning, vertiginously kaleidoscopic patterns appeared and changed form, starting Hitchcock's shocker with a Rorschacher. The names went by - James Stewart, Kim Novak - under abstract suggestions...
After about an hour and a half of writing, Williams chases away the first tension spook of the day with an ice-cold martini. He saves part of every afternoon for his only hobby, swimming. In New York, he may go to the theater or a movie in the evenings. In Key West, he barhops or sits home listening to records with his long time secretary, Frank Merlo, a slight man with steel-grey hair. The rest of the house hold consists of two playful bulldogs, Mr. Moon and Baby Doll, and a parrot...
...Books by Pete Martin and Gerold Frank. These autobiographers occupy a comfortable limbo between spook status and live authorship, and get prominent bylines for their as-told-to confessions of the tabloid famous. But preconfessed bunko is nevertheless bunko. And even expert spirit writing makes all autobiographies sound alike...
Silently tumbling in a near-Polar orbit last week was a mysterious object described as a spook satellite. Spotted by Navy radio space scanners, it is 19 ft. by 5 ft., and ranges in its orbit from an apogee of 1,074 miles to a perigee of 134 miles. The Soviets declared it was not one of theirs. U.S. spacemen said it was not one of theirs. Was it an enemy's "seeing-eye" space station (as retired Army Lieut. General James Gavin darkly suggested), or a curious visitor from outer space? No one knew for sure. Best guess...
...that it was staged by a determined repertory company known as the Living Theater, managed since 1951 by Julian Beck, 34, and his wife Judith Malina, 33. So far, Living Theater has produced some 18 plays, half new, half old, all experimental in their time-Strindberg's The Spook Sonata, Gertrude Stein's Doctor Faustus Lights the Lights, Pirandello's Tonight We Improvise, which now alternates with Connection...