Word: snaked
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Died. Anatole Litvak, 72, Russian-born film director best known for the original version of Mayerling (1936), starring Charles Boyer and Danielle Darrieux, and The Snake Pit (TIME cover, Dec. 20, 1948), starring Olivia de Havilland, which was acclaimed as Hollywood's first realistic examination of insanity; in Neuilly, France...
...rural byways of the U.S. Indeed, scores of sessions at last month's American Anthropological Association's annual meeting in Mexico City were devoted to the problems and rewards of studying U.S. subcultures. These may range from Greek-Americans and company towns to female athletes and Appalachian snake cultists...
...galactic bodies toward earth-Victor Spinetti as a historian, Clive Revill as a businessman who claims he owns all the stars, Graham Crowden as a general without a single soldier in his army Once on earth, the Little Prince meets a shy, friendly fox (Gene Wilder) and the aforementioned snake, played by Bob Fosse, who choreographed his own number He dances it with such undulating grace and molten charm that the show, for the moment, is stolen...
Last year, at the Holiness Church of God in Jesus' Name in Carson Springs, Term., an assistant pastor and a church elder died after drinking strychnine during a snake-handling ceremony. Soon after, a circuit court judge signed an injunction prohibiting snake handling at the church but-curiously -permitting the drinking of strychnine...
...fortnight ago, the Tennessee Court of Appeals sanctioned snake handling at the church so long as it did not "endanger the lives or health of persons who do not consent to exposure of such danger." That danger is still there. The week the Tennessee decision was handed down, a 28-year-old worshiper died in West Virginia from a rattlesnake bite incurred at a Pentecostal rite...