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...Heartbreak Hotel was the nation's No. 1 best-selling record, and Elvis Presley himself was appearing at Las Vegas' New Frontier and getting a taste of more adult audiences. There was little screaming to be heard, but some fully grown female listeners matched the star squirm for squirm. As for Elvis, he spent some of his offstage time amusing local showgirls, but most of it amusing himself in a small amusement park, where, for hours on end, he and his cronies rode the dodgem cars, having a wonderful time...
Diabolique still makes audiences squirm at the Beacon Hill. Horrible in a fascinating sort of way, shows are at 2,4,6,8,10, and not in between...
Tennessee Williams is much like a schoolboy who pulls the wings off flies to watch them squirm, but in place of flies, the playwright looks at people trapped in their own moral degeneracy. This process is hardly a pleasant one, yet in The Rose Tattoo, Williams very skillfully adapts it to the purposes of comedy. It is not a kind of humor, though, that will give an audience a feeling of lighthearted pleasure--it is sweaty and intense and at times almost brutal...
...letter from Ireland's bishops warning of the "danger to faith and morals" that awaits Irish emigrants in England and of the "evil persons [who] are on the watch to meet them and to drag them down into the depths." This was enough to make any Irishman squirm, but there was worse to come. A pool of Irish missionaries would be sent to England, said the bishops, not to convert the English but to win back the Irish who have gone astray...
...nervous. For everyone lucky or unlucky enough to "fall in love" with a picture on sight, there are ten who know what they like but not what they would like to live with. The majority of art shoppers are apt to ask two dead-earnest questions which make dealers squirm: 1) "Do you think this picture will go with my other furnishings?" and 2) "Will my friends approve...