Word: voodoos
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Dahomey, the birthplace of voodoo, undergoes a peculiar seasonal ritual. Ever since it gained independence from France in 1960, the tiny country of 2,300,000 people has regularly tossed out its government during the pre-Christmas season in odd-numbered years. Usually, the man who has served as chief bouncer is a general named Christophe Soglo, 58. Last week, right on schedule, Dahomey had its fourth coup in seven years. This time, it was a total surprise to Soglo, who was himself thrown out as President by a junta of his younger army subordinates...
...Haitian government would not allow the moviemakers in. When he learned the locale was to be Dahomey, Africa, the Duvalier representative protested formally. Yet French Photographer Henri Decae's location shots offer a remarkable re-creation of a land where images of voodoo gods and the Virgin Mary are worshiped at the same rituals. The cast of supporting villains and victims-led by Peter Ustinov-is uniformly excellent. As a fading beauty with a German accent, Taylor is reasonably effective, but Burton, playing an exhausted anti-hero in the same style as his memorable The Spy Who Came...
...these ideas around for a couple of years, but it is only recently that a network official decided to take McLuhan on. Writing in the current issue of Television Quarterly, CBS Public Information Vice President Charles Steinberg, a Ph.D. specializing in communications, called McLuhanism "an amalgam of camp and voodoo," "semantic nonsense," and an "alienation of humanism." And besides, he added, it flies in the face of "conventional wisdom...
Haiti has not been treated kindly by its black voodoo gods - or by its dicta tor, Francois ("Papa Doc") Duvalier...
...years behind in some of its bills, and there are strong fears in Port-au-Prince that the International Monetary Fund, which has been loaning Duvalier as much as $4,000,000 a year, may cut off his credit. Last week the only Haitians without a complaint were the voodoo priests, who have been doing a thriving business casting spells and consulting the spirits for nervous clients. Temple altars in Port-au-Prince were bright with new candles, Christmas lights and eerie black-magic charms; sacrificial goats and doves were led to the slaughter. Like a witch's caldron...