Word: terrorized
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Opulently photographed in and around a crumbling English abbey, Ligeia, like its predecessors, offers meticulous decor, shrewd shock techniques, and an atmosphere of mounting terror that fails to deliver on its promise. Again, the cream-centered menace is Vincent Price, an actor who appears to be swooping around in a cape even when he stands perfectly still. His first wife dead, Price marries a breathtaking beauty (Elizabeth Shepherd) and takes her on a honeymoon that includes a stop at Stonehenge. Back home he resumes his necrophilic fancies until, as usual, a great raging holocaust consumes castle, corpses, black cats, Price...
...fact that, while the critics condemn the use of force against North Viet Nam, they either condone or ignore it in other situations-such as Sukarno's guerrilla war against Malaysia, Red China's conquest of Tibet or, most important, the Viet Cong's own terror against South Vietnamese peasants...
...Killer when he falls in with a former soldier (Tony Perkins) suffering from amnesia and other psychic ills. After the ax murder of a revivalist preacher, Perkins disappears, but returns unexpectedly once the boy has settled down with a childless couple (Dana Elcar, Salome Jens). The inevitable night of terror holds few surprises, though it does set pulses pounding on behalf of Actress Jens, who gives a dull role simple warmth...
...marines in 1934, and Haiti returned to its old ways: nine governments in 20 years, the last headed by François ("Papa Doc") Duvalier, 58, a onetime country physician who took office in 1957, proclaimed himself "President for life," and rules through voodoo mysticism and the strong-arm terror of his 5,000-man Tonton Macoute secret police...
...heart of religion? Arnold Come of San Francisco Theological Seminary makes his critical point with an example: "Two men, an existentialist and a process theologian, go to Selma. The existentialist goes saying, 'The love of Christ that has been born in me responds to the brutality and the terror, and because it does, I have to go and stand beside my Christian brothers.' Is this really self-sacrificing love? Or is it really self-seeking love? The process theologian goes too, and he says, 'I go to Selma because God is moving in history, and here...