Word: snaked
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...movie ends with a virtual sacrifice. Solitaire, ex-virgin and seer, is to be sacrificed for betraying Mr. Big. There is much preparation, much ritual: fires, effigies, wild-eyed primitives, coffins full of lethal snakes (phony) and about 1500 natives who move in sequence looking possessed. This scene is so good it is repeated, first as a precredit vignette, and once with Solitaire as the finale. Solitaire is dressed in virginal white, and is led, amidst much kicking and screaming to the place of sacrifice, where she is confronted with a poisonous snake; it will presumably bite her somewhere around...
...hard to kill as the mythical glass snake which, when struck, broke into fragments and grew a new snake out of each piece...
...when the lists of prisoners came out, " says Peggie Duggan. "I was really expecting a big list. My antenna was up. Then I watched the P.O.W.s return on television. I don't know-I couldn't stay away-it was like a bird being hypnotized by a snake...
...Damiano has now decided to teach a moral lesson, a touching presumption. What his sermonette comes down to is that the wages of sin are sex, a lesson that he preaches with cloying sobriety and lengthy illustration. Spevlin employs all manner of props and partners (including a rather amiable snake) to slake her desires, but she pays for it all in the end. She is imprisoned in a windowless room (Sartre will surely be pleased to know that Damiano has dipped into No Exit). Her only companion is a jabbering paranoid who is too thoroughly spaced out to respond...
That night giant bonfires will be lit in towns and villages throughout the country, and the Israelis will treat themselves to a night of entertainment, street dancing and fireworks. Next day a military parade five miles long-Israel's first in five years-will snake for hours through the streets of Jerusalem. Overhead, more planes (the exact number is classified) will fly above the historic city than have ever been gathered in the region before. One group of Mirages will form a Star of David. The real message of the air display, however, as all Arabs will surely recognize...