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Eichmann, now 54, bore no resemblance to the jaunty SS officer of the past. He had gone almost completely bald, hollow-cheeked, with big, flopping ears and a long, drooping nose. Yet early last month Israeli secret agents identified their quarry. From then on, they stalked him day and night. A five-man commando squad headed by one Yehudah Shimoni was sent from Israel to Buenos Aires. At the same time. El Al (Israeli Airlines) New York Station Manager Joseph Klein, who himself bears a tattooed number from one of Eichmann's concentration camps on his arm, flew down...
...Tennessee sensation-mongering and Westport comedy on a secret hunger for wickedness and bohemianism found in a rich, middle-class society. But he also blames Broadway's frightened, money-grubbing drive to achieve hits at any cost. "Suddenly, the theater, born, they say, of ritual, becomes a hideous bore. All that enormous effort, all those lights, all that beauty, all the pulls to make us believe in the artifice -all suddenly frantic and mean. I went to the theater to discover another world, the true world of imagination, but I saw only my own bad world, coarsely admired...
...exhibit bore the ambitious title of "Photography in the Fine Arts," and was the brainchild of Ivan Dmitri, a onetime etcher who switched to commercial photography when etching lost to the camera in the 1930s. Dmitri decided that most museums would not bother with the serious photographer, and galleries were not interested in showing or selling his wares. What photographers needed, Dmitri argued, was someone to screen out the best from the millions of pictures taken each year...
...plot simmers when the incumbent cousin begins to bore Eleonore. He loves her; he wants to understand her. But she protests: "Do you really think women want to be understood? Women want to be held, you hear me, held. I have nothing to explain. If Hugo learns that I deceive him, he won't try to understand. He'll kill me. He feeds me, he loves me, and he proves it to me evenings." In the play's climax, Eleonore's cousin-lover tries to escape from the snowbound chateau, but in the spring his small...
Humpty Dumpty is one of the unsung muses. While a rise to eminence frequently appears studied, seemly, and something of a bore, the fall of a man, an enterprise, or a reputation is often nakedly dramatic...