Word: voodoos
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...applause), Billy Eckstine (applause), Tony Bennett (laughter), Arthur Godfrey (laughter), Bing Crosby (cheers). After the impersonations, the entertainer sings some straight songs-in a voice not so good as some of those he mimicked, but clear and sure. Then he may play the drums with the abandon of a voodoo priest...
...with the South African firm of Lindel-baum & Co., wine and spirit importers? Thanks to the throb of distant tom-toms (which seem to be saying Mau Mau), the least alert reader can guess that the spirits imported by evil Mr. Lindelbaum are more vodka and voodoo than honest Scotch. South African-born Novelist van der Post (Venture to the Interior) has taken his theme from French Philosopher-Sociologist Lucien Levy-Bruhl: "Le reve est le vrai dieu des Primitifs [The dream is the real god of primitive peoples]." The Russians know that the far-flung Amangtak-wena tribe...
Once in Haiti, Mrs. Garrett contacted a U.N. official whom she prefers not to mention by name. She had mysteriously arrived at the height of the voodoo season, and the U.N. figure accompanied her to a celebration of native rites. The Witch Doctor, as he is called, immediately recognized in Mrs. Garrett the one white woman ever to be a favorite of the Haitian god, Papaleba. It is at this point, actually, that her uncanny and mystical experiences commenced...
House of Flowers (book by Truman Capote; music by Harold Arlen; lyrics by Capote and Arlen) has a good deal of what its title evokes. Out of a West Indian yarn of high-toned rival bordellos, of Mardi gras and cockfights and voodoo worship, spill brilliant color, exotic fragrance and tropical profusion. To be sure, the very things that give House of Flowers its charm and freshness also tend, after a while, to drain them away. For flowers wilt, and scent induces drowsiness...
...VOODOO-IT-YOURSELF KIT has been developed for the Air Force by McDonnell Aircraft Corp. To make repairs on its new supersonic Voodoo jet fighter, the St. Louis planemaker has printed 1,100 drawings of structural parts (wing panels, etc.) on a special, transparent glass cloth. All a mechanic has to do is lay the cloth over a sheet of chemically prepared metal, set it in the sun; the sun's rays trace the part's exact outline on the metal for the mechanic...