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...intends it as a kind of spiritual autobiography, identifies himself both with the masked magician and the drunken actor, who dies with his battered top hat on, raving: "I always longed for a knife to free me ... Then what we call the spirit would rise up from the meaningless carcass." Cinemagician Bergman seems to see both men as despairing artists whose creative imaginations doom them to social obloquy and the distrust and disdain of hardheaded authority. What scant optimism there is in this fatalistic philosophy lies in the final triumph of the Magnetic Health Theater: the artist suffers...
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...hours Dr. Davis and others worked over the sinking monkey. Dr. Davis tried to revive her by blowing his own breath into her lungs. Other doctors cut into her chest, gave her heart electric shocks and massaged it by hand. But Able was dead. Next morning her carcass was flown in a small suitcase to Walter Reed Army Hospital in Washington, where an autopsy was performed by Colonel Joe M. Blumberg, who had orders not to mar unnecessarily her historic skin...
...young shop clerk, possessed by the spirit of the amorous Indian god Arruda, wrestled a pretty woman to the ground, died when her husband emptied his .45 into him. The next morning the beaches were littered with grisly debris-fetishes and bottles, blood, clothing, and the occasional headless carcass of a sacrificed chicken...
...Limit. In Peterborough, Ont., at the close of the deer season, an intruder entered the city zoo, climbed a 10-ft. fence, killed a ten-year-old doe named Dolly, lifted the 150-lb. carcass out of the enclosure and made off with...