Word: svengali
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...special hypnosis unit, the first in the U.S. Kroger and nine other medical hypnotists trained 14 L.A.P.D. officers in the technique, which dates back at least to ancient Egypt. Says L.A.P.D. Captain Richard Sandstrom, who is currently evaluating the work of the force's new Svengali Squad: "Hypnosis gives utterly fantastic results...
...film is dubbed in later, so Fellini can direct like a latter-day D.W. Griffith, instructing as the camera rolls: "Move toward me, Olimpia. Pause. Take a deep breath. Look down at your hands. Bravar Actress Olimpia Carlisi is not acting to the camera, but to her director, her Svengali...
...Svengali-like collaborator (they are working on a musical version of the Iliad and the Odyssey) sells Bing out for a bigger name. His addled, overattentive parents come to believe he is someone else, rather than their disappointing son. An old childhood, friend, now a rich and famous movie star, even upstages Bing's suicide attempt with a dive from a Broadway billboard. The star has sold the rights to his death...
...into liberation, she can see Cher bravely soloing as a variety-show star after the breakup of the Sonny and Cher partnership (and marriage) as a blow for emancipation. It may even be a vindication of sorts. Sonny, who had the reputation of being Cher's Svengali, suffered the ignominy of having his solo show canceled in midseason, not long before Cher rose into Nielsen's top ten. If sexual politics is not Mom's bag, then she can sit back and relax while enjoying the fashion show and some mildly envious fantasies about the corps...
...movie The Candidate, after Robert Redford has scored an unexpected victory in his campaign for the U.S. Senate, he breaks away from his cheering supporters to ask his Svengali-like manager plaintively: "What do we do now?" Similar uncertainty will plague most of the 69 men and women elected for the first time on Nov. 7 to the U.S. House of Representatives. To judge by past experience, their initial months in Washington will be taken up by the minute, time-consuming details of opening an office, learning the complex rules of parliamentary procedure and even finding the bathrooms, rather than...