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Voodoo Spirits. Papa Doc cast his spell through the artful use of voodoo, which in effect is Haiti's national religion. Duvalier affected the staring gaze, whispered speech and hyperslow movements recognized by Haitians as signs that a person is close to the voodoo spirits. He solicited the allegiance of voo doo priests in the countryside, often bringing them to Port-au-Prince for a presidential audience, and he encouraged rumors that he possessed supernatural powers. "My enemies cannot get me!" he used to exult to his followers. "I am already an immaterial being...
...Robert DeGrimston and his wife. DeGrimston's photograph appears inside several of the Process books which were "recorded" by DeGrimston himself. In the photographs, he has, like many of the men in the Church, neat shoulder-length hair and a trimmed moustache and beard; he also has the elevated gaze of a solemn visionary...
Another time I rode with a shooting victim who had been shot in the leg by a policeman from my own section. The victim's entire family was there at the hospital and not, understandably, gazing any too fondly on the police profession. Their gaze focused...
...weeks the Bandit's roaring chain saw sliced foot-thick support poles and toppled 35 offensive billboards along U.S. Highway 23. Where motorists once skimmed stirring legends like "Stuckey's Famous Pecans-2 Miles Ahead," they now have only trees and farmland to gaze upon...
...When Polaroid says it will give money to assist, education, it is not helping blacks at all-it is damaging them," he said. "Prime Minister Verwoerd used to say, 'We do not want to give the natives an education that will let them gaze on what they may not graze...