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...writes well, for instance, but not so well that he seems to be waving a perfumed handkerchief about the landscape. By his campfire after a day of fishing, when it is time to throw a cliché on the flames, he comes up with a good, chunky one: "I woke just once during the night, when a Union Pacific freight train wailed in the distance...
Finally Los Angeles woke up to what was happening. Movie stars offered to entertain, merchants lined the streets with foreign flags, and, most important, tickets suddenly began to sell. Years later, visitors remembered the extraordinary atmosphere of amity that pervaded the air during the 16 days of the Games of the X Olympiad. At the end of the first day's events, an announcer asked spectators to remain seated so there would be no traffic to slow the athletes on their way back to the village. The great throng joined in singing a chorus of songs until the contestants...
Budapest (pop. 1,750,000) woke early next morning to the sound of machine-gun fire as a column of 80 Soviet tanks rolled into the city and took up positions covering all bridges, boulevards and public buildings. Other tank forces ringed the city. At dawn martial law was imposed on the whole country, a 24-hour curfew on Budapest. Trains and streetcars stopped running, telephone communication with the outside world...
...very thing. To young Garvey, it was as if one man had the power to defy the gods. He has studied Coolidge ever since. Last week Garvey published the story of how Coolidge, while living in the New Willard Hotel waiting for Mrs. Harding to leave the White House, woke up and found a cat burglar rifling his clothes. Coolidge talked the young man out of the crime, lent him $32 for a meal and transportation home, and sneaked him out the window so the Secret Service would...
...long before Altman woke her from her pre-Hollywood slumber, Duvall had been collecting antique illustrated fairy-tale books. She was charmed by the stories, but bewitched by the pictures: dreamy Maxfield Parrish landscapes, bold N.C. Wyeth seascapes, puckish Arthur Rackham characters. While in Malta in 1980, playing Olive Oyl opposite Robin Williams in Altman's film Popeye, a vision of the rubbery Williams as a vain and manic frog prince leaped into her head, and the notion of Faerie Tale Theatre was born. Each tale would have different players and be colored by the visual style...