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...Williams has his iguana, his characters, and his audience at the end of a rope that is life." --review of film, "Night of the Iguana," Harvard Student Calendar, September...
...things a man can do in the gentle name of sport. He can wrestle 750 lb. steers, shatter concrete blocks with his hand, dangle from 20,000-ft. mountains on strands of rope. And when he gets bored with such jejune pursuits, he can take up racing airplanes around 50-ft. pylons stuck in the ground - a sport so suicidal that the U.S. Government outlawed it 15 years ago. But you can't keep a madman down. Last week, with the reluctant blessing of the Federal Aviation Agency, 100 daredevils converged on a patch of desert outside Reno...
ROGER AND OUT (Smash). Roger Miller is the noisiest sinner in or out of Nashville. He spent the grocery money and half the rent on liquor and then jammed the air waves confessing. "Dang me, they ought to take a rope and hang me," he keeps singing. Nobody is arguing with him, but so far the only action against him has been taken by Ruby Wright, who sings an answer to Dang Me called Dern Ya. In the meanwhile Miller has gone on writing songs like those that fill this album, e.g., Squares Make the World Go Round...
Inch by inch the aerial thief descends to cop the swag. Second by second the suspense intensifies. If the rope slips, if a tool falls, if so much as a large bead of sweat drops off the burglar's brow and lands on the pressure-sensitive floor, the impact will inevitably stimulate tiny electronic centers and trip the general alarm...
...Aaaaaa!" cries the man at the other end of the rope. "It's slipping...