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...dance routines right down to their knees for the supplest satire in the show. But Superman's chief foe is a mad scientist and perennial Nobel Prize dropout: "I've bought ten tickets to Stockholm." Played by Michael O'Sullivan in his best witch-minus-broomstick style, the scientist seeks revenge by attempting to destroy the symbol of goodness in Metropolis. He brain-shrinks Superman (a difficult feat) with the suggestion that being rocketed out from the exploding planet Krypton as a child has left him with a rejection trauma that demands the compensatory adulation of millions...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: Paper Cutups | 4/8/1966 | See Source »

...emulate capitalist mass production of autos, the huge freighters of the future, and a set of far-out projects reported on in The Magnificent Men in Their Whooshing Machines. These include monorails, hovercraft, aero-trains, and just about every other form of transport save the flying carpet and the broomstick-some of which are superspeed realities, others still in blueprint...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Letter From The Publisher: Jul. 16, 1965 | 7/16/1965 | See Source »

...mother kept him in dresses until he was six. As soon as he graduated to pants, he started sneaking off to play tackle football with the older kids in Akron, and the only way mom could get him home was to come after him with the sawed-off broomstick she used to stir the family wash. As an eighth-grader, Ara was everybody's nomination for Toughest Kid in school?even the Board of Education's. "They were having a lot of trouble with vandals breaking windows," recalls Older Brother Gerard, 43, a Toledo businessman. "So they just hired...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: College Football: Ara the Beautiful | 11/20/1964 | See Source »

Thursday, October 29 BEWITCHED (ABC, 9-9:30 p.m.).* Guest Shelley Berman plays a candy king whose plans to incorporate broomstick uglies into his Halloween advertising campaign arouse the ire of housewifely Witch Samantha (Elizabeth Montgomery...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Oct. 30, 1964 | 10/30/1964 | See Source »

...sheer lack of anything to do. Newton fiddles with his curly 18th century wig, Einstein saws at his fiddle, while Solomon keeps listening for those voices in his head. The lady hunchback (Jessica Tandy) who manages this loony bin shuffles around like a witch off a broomstick. Her charges all murder their nurses...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: Swiss Cheese | 10/23/1964 | See Source »

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