Word: amulets
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...long last, a collection of 250 of the world's oldest known works of art is on display at Manhattan's American Museum of Natural History, in an exhibition called "Ice Age Art." A few, like the carved stone amulet of a female pregnant on one side but not on the other, are priceless originals...
Rolling his eyes, scratching his head and clutching his amulet, Noguera dominates the stage in his performance as the superstitious Chico, continually closing his bizarre tales with his plaintive cry, "I don't know, all I know is, that...
...kids onto a magic brass bed that flies them away from their little cottage by the white cliffs of Dover for a trip to London. The "headmaster" of the correspondence school, a sidewalk sorcerer named Professor Emelius Browne (David Tomlinson), joins the group in a search for a magic amulet that will com plete the correspondence course and secure Miss Price's powers...
They journey in the magic bed to the enchanted Isle of Naboombu, which is populated, in predictable Disney tradition, by anthropomorphic cartoon creatures. Professor Browne wrests the amulet from the lion king and the jolly group is off again, back to the cliffside cottage where they settle down to battle Germans with their sorcery...
...Time in lapidating the book and in denouncing its author as a traitor to the cause and as a CIA dupe/agent. Williams has been portrayed as a money-motivated ghoul robbing the defenseless grave of King. Certain members of the black intelligentsia have even threatened to dig their cherished amulet, legal action, out of mothballs and employ it as a crucifix against this new vampire...