Word: magical
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...commune nude or barebreasted, catering to his every whim. One chagrined ranchhand relates discussing business with Manson while one of Manson's girls performed a sex act upon the "guru." But women in the "family" saw him in a different light. "He gave off a lot of magic," said one, Lynn Fromme. "To me, to us, he was everything," added another, Sandy Good Pugh...
...SORCERER'S APPRENTICE, by Barbara Hazen and Tomi Ungerer (Lancelot; $3.95). The lazy young apprentice tries some magic spells of his own-with optional help from an LP record ($5.98 for set) of Paul Dukas' music interpreted by Leonard Bernstein and the New York Philharmonic...
...organized religion. But what is to become of Laugh-In once the old gang is gone? Newcomers are already being broken in, including a dumb redhead named Pamela Rodgers and an energetic Negro named Teresa Graves. And there's always Rowan and Martin (remember them?). But the magic of their show has always been fragile at best. The old legerdemain may not be as compelling when it falls into new hands...
...driving out the resident adults in order to "create their own fiction." But the misbegotten villain, greedy rancher Drag Gibson, slaughters the children and most of the circus, leaving only Loop Garoo to plot a spectacular revenge, complete with show-downs, hide-outs. Christ figures, and all the working magic of the American Hoo-Doo Church...
Blythe lets the people of the village speak for themselves. The 50 presented (verbatim, we are assured, although their extraordinary eloquence sometimes suggests the author possesses a magic tape recorder) range from an 82-year-old illiterate recluse to a pair of teen-age buddies, one a forge apprentice, the other a farm worker. All are brilliantly individualized. Not a mute inglorious Milton or a Cold Comfort Farm codger...