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Word: voodoos (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Uncle Sam hat straight from Chappaqua on his head. The omega-like sign of Leo, fiery and domineering, the sign of a king, is printed on his chest. "Well alright," he shouts at the audience, looking the perverse offspring of a Rimbaud or a Wilde, and like a voodoo prince he pumps his hips twice and begins to dance. Pouting, leering, his fat lips flapping, his eyes hopped in derision, he is the shaman, the witch we have waited for, the King Kong monster. The audience is left contemplating the mask of a primitive...

Author: By Joel Haycock, | Title: The flea-bit painted monkey Got Live If You Want It | 12/9/1969 | See Source »

...course, Vadinho could not make his way back from the blue except in a land as saturated with voodoo and ghostly candomblé rituals as Bahia. "God is fat," he confides to Dona Flor. He came back, he adds, because, despite her love for Dr. Teodoro, she called him. She cannot deny it, nor can she bring herself to send him packing back to his corpulent deity...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Sugar and Spice | 9/5/1969 | See Source »

...worry about playing for his audiences. He will now play a whole set of beautiful Bluesy stuff and all he has to do is wind up with "Purple Haze" and the audience will worship him. In his last album, Electric Ladyland, he gets into a long jam called "Voodoo Chile," which is beautiful Blues...

Author: By James C. Gutman, | Title: B.B. King Is King of the Blues--Black Music That Whites Now Dig | 2/27/1969 | See Source »

Died. Major Arthur W. Beckstrom, 33, highly decorated U.S. Air Force pilot (20 medals of valor, including the Silver Star and the Distinguished Flying Cross), who survived 202 combat missions in Viet Nam without serious injury; in the crash of his RF-101 Voodoo reconnaissance jet while on a training flight; near Blue Ridge...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: Jan. 10, 1969 | 1/10/1969 | See Source »

...witch of the old school who appears in black and white, works with romance poisons and voodoo, takes arsenic herself...

Author: By John D. Reed, | Title: 3 Sisters | 10/4/1968 | See Source »

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