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Feet tied and hands clutched painfully behind their backs, the U.S. Army officers snaked and wiggled on their stomachs over the dusty, rock-strewn ground. "This way, sickie, crawl to me!" cried one captor. "You're ugly, you know that, sickie? Crawl-remember, we've got a lot worse waiting...
This passion to explain away problems in the play, this etiological fetish, produces a tortured prologue in which it is learned that Viola was raped by her pirate captor and her brother forced to look on. From this their madness...
...Murderers Among Us (to be published this month in the U.S. by McGraw-Hill), Wiesenthal meticulously documents the fevers and frustrations of hunting Nazis. His search for Stangl followed much the same painstaking process that Wiesenthal had earlier used to help track Adolf Eichmann and Karl Silberbauer, the captor of Anne Frank...
Power of Paralysis. How could it all have happened? Why did none of the girls scream for help or break away while their captor was out of the room? The answer probably lies in the power of a gun; the helpless victims were evidently paralyzed by the thought that the assailant might shoot them before any move could succeed...
...idea of rebottling Bond. The most imaginative of the imitators seems likely to be Get Smart (NBC), a spoof of the already spoofish Man from U.N.C.L.E., featuring Comic Don Adams as Agent Maxwell Smart (get it?-"Get Smart!"). Blooper-Spy Smart hasn't much cool. When his captor says he does not believe there are six Coast Guard cutters on the way to the rescue, Smart asks: "Would you believe five...