Word: poltergeist
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Defenders (CBS, 8:30-9:30 p.m.). The Prestons go to Fire Island for the weekend, encounter a poltergeist and a murder. Guests include Mary Astor, Patrick O'Neal and Joan Hackett. Repeat...
Winter Light. Sweden's cinematic poltergeist, Writer-Director Ingmar Bergman, once more haunts the dark and chilly corridors where Man loses God, and once more the soul in torment seems to be his own. Bergman is the son of an austere Evangelical Lutheran parson who molded the boy with icy constraint and puritanical tyranny, and of a mother who was remote from both son and husband. To Bergman his parents were "sealed in iron caskets." This boyhood gave him the permeating motifs for his work: "God and the Devil, Life and Death, the drama of the couple...
...Poltergeist & Poppycock. "The legends," said Ferry, "shrink in the washing." But J. Edgar Hoover, "the indubitable mandarin of anti-Communism in the U.S.," is "as responsible as any person" for "keeping the Red poltergeist hovering in the national consciousness." Hoover's constant warnings against Soviet espionage in the U.S. are right off "an old line . . . and its success year after year is a tribute to the trance into which his sermons throw Americans, not excepting Congressmen. Mr. Hoover is, after all, our official spy swatter. In these persistent reports about espionage and sabotage, is he delicately telling us that...
...begins to subsist on handouts from a rich homosexual. He goes partying with a congeries of unlovable eccentrics, such as the frail and balding Gabriel Fantl, who was "reputed to have more women by the month than any known man,'' elderly Effie, who had three ghosts (a poltergeist, Thomas De Quincey, and a half-man, half-beast), and Flora Massingham, "as fat and pink as a pig at Christmas," who took him to see a magic show where a young woman was really sawed in half. "I said: 'Well, what's the explanation?' Flora Massingham...
...Gustav Regler's autobiography reads as if it were ghostwritten, it is probably because it was written by a ghost. The ghost is Regler himself, in his time a noisy political poltergeist. With a good man's dedication to his delusions, he played a man's part in inhuman situations throughout three dreadful decades...