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...kindergarten teacher from the sticks. He, heir to the throne of Great Britain. Together, their love burned in a torrid bonfire of passion that captured the imagination of the world. A great love. An epic love. A love that kept Sasquatch off the front page of the Weekly World News...
...tour repertory is the second act of Spartacus, which closes the "Highlights" program. The choreography is little more than an astounding series of leaps and runs. Mukhamedov's entrance is a cadenza of high, bullet- fast jumps. He becomes a projectile of the Roman slaves' insurrection, ending the torrid first scene by rushing downstage to the footlights in an embodiment of bloodlust. But he is no caricature. Mukhamedov's manner is actually diffident, almost impersonal, and this modesty adds a human, even modern, scale that counterbalances his explosive feats...
Close Quarters thus begins in anticlimax. The unnamed old warship is wallowing through the torrid zone west of Africa. Talbot buys another book of blank paper from the ship's purser and resolves to continue writing without quite knowing why: "There is an inevitable difference between this journal, meant for, for, I do not know for whom, and the first one meant for the eyes of a godfather who is less indulgent than I pretended. In that volume I had all my work done for me." His surviving fellow passengers do not strike Talbot as promising heroes or heroines...
Most intriguing of all are reports that the temperature record set by Chu and since matched by dozens of other researchers has already been surpassed. Some physicists have even reportedsuperconductivity-re lated effects -- though not true superconductivity -- at the torrid heights of 240 K, or -27 degrees F, which is warmer than many wintry nights in North Dakota...
What ever happened to Yvonne De Carlo? You remember her: the torrid brunet who started as a harem handmaiden and by dint of hard work, moxie and what her lover Howard Hughes called a "nice set of lavalieres" became queen of costume dramas in the '40s and '50s. For one thing, she became an autobiographer who, in the great tradition, bares just enough to keep it interesting but not enough to worry the censors. Her offscreen memoirs offer a short course in studio politics and a long list of amours, including Hughes, Robert Taylor, Robert Stack, the Shah of Iran...