Word: witchcrafts
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...magnificent rose, which is green, which costs one franc a kilo, and which one eats." This generosity about the physical world pervades even a nominally "sinister" Helion like Exorcism, 1973 (see color page): the chair draped with clothes, its legs stuck into shoes, suggests some kind of rural witchcraft, but the sliced pumpkin is as replete with life as a Rubens backside...
...does Peter Fonda get himself into these things? He and his buddy Warren Gates-reunited again after Fonda's own The Hired Hand (1971) -appear as vacationers run afoul of witchcraft out in the Texas boonies. Members of a cult that plays footsie with Satan dress up in hooded sheets and build a bonfire near a gnarled old tree. Then they get right down to business and sacrifice a victim. This gives the boys across the ravine-Fonda and Gates-a mighty eyeful and a good scare. They climb back aboard their $36,000 motor home and hightail...
...Magician, 4, 7:30, 11 p.m., Witchcraft Through the Ages, 5:50, 9:20, tonight; Richard III, 4, 7:30, 10 p.m., Wednesday and Thursday...
...well. In 1973 General Felix Malloum, then commander in chief of the army, was arrested for allegedly conspiring to overthrow Tombalbaye. Early this year Mrs. Kaltouma Guembang, former head of the Progressive Party's women's wing, was tried for attempting to kill the President by witchcraft. She allegedly hired wizards to pierce the eyes of a black sheep-symbolizing Tombalbaye-and bury it alive. The movement to oust Tombalbaye gained momentum last summer when, as part of an authenticity campaign called Chaditude, he ordered all high government officials, civil servants and military officers to undergo Yondo...
...American legal system sunk so low that the justice now meted out is even worse than that in the Salem witchcraft trials...