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...pictures. The examining magistrate gets K.'s case all mixed up with the case of a house painter. To conduct his defense, K. retains an advocate (Orson Welles). But while the old earwig is mumbling about legal problems, K. sneaks off with his chambermaid (Romy Schneider), a sexy witch with webbed fingers who takes him for a tumble in a pile of old legal papers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: In the Toils of the Law | 3/1/1963 | See Source »

...helicopter. The rebels fled into the hills. Police blamed the trailer murders and the tribal outbreak on the increasing influence of Poqo (pronounced Paw-kaw), an African terrorist society whose members, like Kenya's notorious Mau Mau, take secret oaths and are heavily influenced by witch doctors. Poqo fanatics recently tried to assassinate Matanzima because he frankly favors apartheid as "the best solution" for South Africa's racial troubles...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: South Africa: Unhappy Apart | 2/22/1963 | See Source »

...Gargoyle, claiming "overwhelming public support for the castle's conversion," will present Vellucci with their George Burrough's Award, an annual distinction given in honor of the only Harvard alumnus over to be burned as a witch...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: 'Poon, Gargoyle, City To Clash Today Over Fate of 'Poon Castle | 2/18/1963 | See Source »

Vellucci called the Poon castle "a mouth house. It has two eyes, a nose, and a mouth and it looks like a witch on a broomstick." It is rumored that Vellucci will turn an at the Poon weekly dinner this Thursday to study the cost of converting the castle into a privy...

Author: By Peter R. Kann, | Title: 'Turn Lampoon Into Rest Room': Vellucci | 2/12/1963 | See Source »

...play's dramatizing the oral v. the anal; a philosophic friend told me Williams has examined "existence" and "nothingness" in terms of "knowing" as opposed to "understanding"; one poet I know sees "the Angel of Death" as a purely Rilkean angel ("a peaceful presence"), and the witch of Capri as a true witch, and the whole play as a modern fairy tale...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Using the Brain | 2/1/1963 | See Source »

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