Word: pitchforkness
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...recognition of Hollywood's Second Reconstruction program of employing and exploiting former athletes and would-be welfare recipients; this year a nice shiny-new Cadillac-El Dorado convertible goes, on a bloodied pitchfork, to the producers of Mandigo...
...They're doing these same things in Peking, only about 13 hours ahead of us," said one of the participants in the dance. He held a black pitchfork which he explained was one of the traditional weapons used in the ceremony...
...life is proceeding apace around you. The twins continue to play in the barn and plan their magic show while around them person after person dies in horrible circumstances due to the actions of the "bad" twin. Their insufferable cousin, jumping in the hayloft, lands on a carefully placed pitchfork. Their invalid mother is pushed down the stairs in the middle of the night when no one but them is there is to see. By day they are such charming creatures, uninterested by anything except their childish games, that an external spirit of evil seems to be lurking...
This otherworldly kind of evil--the action cuts straight from the crow sequence to the pitchfork death--is what we get hints of here and there, but ultimately the evil is resolved in terms of psychology, without recourse to metaphysics. The feel of the film is almost excessively human: Mulligan's intense personal involvement with his characters keeps The Other from being anything more than a momentarily mind-boggling thriller, albeit one of the best in recent years. His attempts to transcent the actual events fail; the world he creates is too immediate...
Buffoons, set to a theme from Rimsky Korsakov's The Snow Maiden, is a robust, circus-like satire on Old Russia, with a drunken boyar, a devil wielding a pitchfork and a troupe of gymnastic, gnomic clowns. The other two novelties are internationally flavored departures from Moiseyev's customary exploration of the Russian heritage. Sicilian Tarantella is a festive evocation of Italy's traditional folk dance, while Gaucho is a foot-stomping challenge match for three male soloists, dressed like Argentine cowboys on parade. The Latin rhythms have the right ring, but Moiseyev's cowboys look...