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Something about the poses and expressions suggested Madame Tussaud's Wax Museum. But the photo actually showed a live actor, Stacy Keach, sitting in a real electric chair, and his producerdirector, Jack Smight, making a film called The Traveling Executioner on location at Kilby Prison near Montgomery, Ala. The third figure was merely a familiar passerby: George Wallace...
Finally, Jebbie begins to wax dramatic about the smell of death (carbon bisulfide). At that moment, something incredible happens: what appears to be a ten-foot-high black baby wakes up screaming in her crib. Actually she is Carolyn Y. Cardwell, from Robert Downey's Putney Swope, and probably is no more than five and a half feet tall. Bobby wants to eat her and Jebbie does not. The baby then screams, "Rats! rats! rats!" and the lights black out (except the cue was missed on Thursday). Jebbie is left weeping and asking "Why?" If the rats are simply anthropomorphic...
...team would have to be changed." Even so, when it comes to payola, Europeans are way ahead. They regard their skiers as natural resources vital to the promotion of winter tourism. Thus European ski groups maintain cash "pools" to keep their racers in ski wax and maybe a sports car or two. France's Jean-Claude Killy was reportedly rewarded with $30,000 in pool funds after winning three gold medals at the 1968 Olympics. And if skiers are able to pick up a little extra pocket money on the side, well, more power to them-unofficially, of course...
Even then his droll humor was evident. In 1964, while using burlap to impress the texture of cloth in his lost-wax bronzes, he hit upon the idea of making sculptures out of the burlap itself draped over metal armatures. He quickly became handy with a needle and thread, still chuckles over the fact that when thieves recently broke into his studio, they walked off with his old secondhand Singer sewing machine and ignored his sculptures (which command...
...stop we got out and joined hundreds of smiling, energetic people of all ages and both sexes who were filling black wax-paper bags full of dirt and placing a coffee seedling in each bag for later germination. It was a hot day but lots of people were talking animatedly and singing. They seemed to see it as a weekly outing and only a portion of the work that thousands of others in the canefields and in factories were also involved in. There are no financial rewards for this kind of labor, just a colorful pin to wear...