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Woodcuts of the time show Dracula eating at a banquet table outdoors, surrounded by a large array of stakes on which bodies are speared. When a visitor to his court showed himself to be revolted by the resulting stench, Dracula jovially ordered the man himself to be impaled, but on an especially high stake, so he could not be offended by the smell of other bodies. When two emissaries of Sultan Mohammed II neglected to take off their turbans, explaining that such was the Turkish custom, Dracula had the turbans nailed to their heads. He spitted babies on their mothers...
...Excited but not nervous" was the way Raquel Welch described her state of mind as she set out, with a midget and an array of animated puppets, to make her nightclub debut at the Las Vegas Hilton. Skeptics may have expected Raquel to provide little more than a few wiggles, but according to Variety's dazzled correspondent, she "terped with know-how and chirped with appealing huskiness." All in all, he concluded, it was "one of the most unique shows ever presented in Las Vegas...
...kidnaping and face life sentences. The most serious charges involved two inmates who were not leaders, Charles Pernasilice and John Hill, both accused of beating a guard to death shortly after the riot broke out; the offense still carries the possibility of the death penalty in New York. The array of charges against other inmates includes the murder of a fellow convict, assault, coercion and even the theft of a prison...
MAHLER: SYMPHONY NO. 8 (London, 2 LPs). Conductor Georg Solti triumphs in a work that, in emotional scope and array of forces, is a most difficult challenge to recording...
...Government claimed that the eight defendants had collaborated in a bewildering array of financial sleights of hand designed "to arouse interest" on the part of investors in Four Seasons' seemingly golden growth. In fact, says the indictment, part of the company's earnings were based on sales of nursing homes that were reported in company documents and certified in accounting statements but had never really occurred. Another ruse, it said, was the selloff, at inflated prices, of some of Four Seasons' losing properties, which unnaturally increased the company's earning power. Actually, says the indictment...