Word: voodoos
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Joplin's libretto has a big subject (how the Negro can improve himself) but an oversimplified solution (education). Its language is embarrassingly laden with darky dialect ("Aunt Dinah has blowed de horn,/And we'll go home to stay until dawn"). There are enough voodoo heavies, cavorting bears and right-thinking preachers to tax any producer's ingenuity...
...ripping punches that helped Mexico's José Nápoles retain his welterweight title with a 15-round decision over Detroit's Hedgemon Lewis. To Kid Rapidez, Nápoles' trainer, the secret weapon was "the great power up there." Rapidez, a disciple of the voodoo-like Santero religion, believes in a good rite as much as in a good left. When one of his stable of 80 boxers fights an important match in Mexico City, the Kid dons a red kerchief, a string of Shango beads and pours cologne at the fighter's feet...
...writer is at a loss for anything fresh to say, he sometimes cannibalizes previous successful works of his own, or cribs outright from someone else. In The Screens, Jean Genet does both. Thinly disguised furnishings of The Balcony, with its bordello fantasies, and The Blacks, with its racial voodoo masks, go floating past in this five-hour play that most nearly resembles a roiling, debris-clotted river in flood...
...honor in the serious film world, Hammer is attracting a cineaste cult following. This fall the prestigious British Film Institute showed a retrospective "Tribute to Hammer Films" at London's National Film Theater. The month-long festival came complete with solemn program notes (the portrayal of a Cornish voodoo cult in The Plague of the Zombies is seen as symbolic protest against oppressive modern mineowners). The changing critical climate seems to make Sir James uneasy. "I hope our public realizes that we're not going to change in the same way," he says...
...king of voodoo rock is ushered in with the calls of a thousand maidens locked forever in his grasp. Dr. John, the Night Tripper, that curious mixture of syncopation, polyphony and mysticism, has returned once again from the world of magic to the world of music in his new album The Sun, Moon and Herbs. Like his three previous efforts, Dr. John's latest album manages to avoid the pitfalls of false profundity, emerging instead as a reflection of the artist...