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When Benito Remedies' roosters lost cockfights, Cubans said, he wrung the cowards' necks with his own hands. Once, when a brand-new $7,500 Cadillac refused to start, he riddled its recalcitrant carburetor with bullets...
...from his dreams Leonardo wrung some amazing realities. He took up military engineering, and invented prototypes of the machine gun, the tank, the explosive shell, the submarine. Turning to municipal planning, he conceived a city with two-level highways. He designed the first power loom, the first rolling mill, the first differential gear, the first picture projector. His studies in anatomy, hydraulics, mechanics, optics carried him centuries ahead of his day. Even his amusements made history: he invented a musical instrument that anticipated the harpsichord; he improved the printing press, rigged a style of oil lamp that was used until...
...could ride and shoot like a Cody or a Hickock. When he was not dead drunk, he could spout a temperance speech that would awaken the remorse of the most sodden toper. When he was not in jail for fraud, slander, bigamy, libel or inciting to riot, he wrung women's hearts with his impassioned campaigns for purity. This was a sore point among his mistresses and his wives; he married at least six, in various cities, and sometimes had as many as three wives at once...
...after he ran away from the battle in "The Red Badge of Courage"; the time-sequence shots of flowers opening in the spring in Walt Disney's "Nature's Half Acre"; and finally the scene in Walter Slezak's kitchen where he and Cary Grant discuss how science has wrung the beauty out of living, especially eating, in "People Will Talk...
...away from home, when he was 16, he was sent to London to be psychoanalyzed. He lived at his analyst's house-"delightful months . . . perhaps the happiest of my life." It is doubtful whether they were happy months for the analyst. Graham emerged from psychoanalysis "correctly oriented . . . but wrung dry." He felt bored, and he stayed bored a long time...