Word: spirited
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Suddenly the spirit of an evil god possesses a young girl, who falls violently to the ground and rolls, screaming, onto the fire. The two dancers rush forward, pull her back from the flames, and hold her until the voodoo priest can drive out the spirit...
...overall record, both Winfield and Marion look ahead optimistically to next season. With another year of experience, the addition of two excellent freshmen, and few losses by graduation, Winfield feels, "We have a good chance of being national champs next year. We're finally starting to get some team spirit, confidence, and guts...
...surprising amount of the new critical spirit looks toward the U.S. as the best instrument and prod for government reform (see box). Only a month or so ago, a South Vietnamese who publicly suggested U.S. interference in the government ran the risk of being charged with "licking the American boots." Now the crisis has convinced many Saigon politicians of the need for more, rather than less, U.S. direction and firmness in guiding the government to reform and action...
...much the material as the freewheeling, pell-mell pace at which it is dished out. One-liners fly like ack-ack, and if there are more than a few duds it is hard to tell in the thick of the barrage. Everybody wings it, and in that spirit the show's resident cast of bright young kooks often make the lines seem funnier than they really are. "If one gag goes completely over your head," says Martin, "there'll be another along in a few seconds that'll crack you up." Sprinkled throughout are quick flashes...
...Auctioneer. Manhattan's Scott Meredith, 43, perhaps the nation's most successful literary agent, approaches his work in a considerably colder spirit. Some years ago, the trade set up the Society of Authors' Representatives, a gentlemanly association of agents who valiantly try to regulate their business with a code of ethics. He is its most important nonmember. He advertises the services of his 30-man staff, and he charges a fee for reading manuscripts-two functions frowned upon by the S.A.R. Meredith can afford the frowns. His stable includes Norman Mailer, Gerald Green, Ellery Queen, Mickey Spillane...