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Magic and fantasy, asserts Holder, are what this world is starving for, and he is clearly a man who knows his Munchkins. No witch doctor could have conjured up a more fantastical stewpot of sights for bored eyes. The tornado that sweeps Dorothy to Oz is a dancer whose headgear spouts 100 yards of black silk swirling to the rafters. The Yellow Brick Road is a quartet of lanky dudes in brilliant yellow brick-patterned tailcoats. An armor of beer cans and garbage cans makes the Tin Man. Originally scheduled not only to direct and costume the show...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: The Wizard of Trinidad | 5/5/1975 | See Source »

...live up to his image as China's man of destiny, and the new Asia so ardently expected by Americans failed to materialize, Chiang found himself abandoned by the Truman Administration. That placed Chiang at the center of an unhappy chapter in postwar U.S. history: the hate-filled witch hunt for those who "lost China...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: China: Chiang Kai-shek: Death of the Casualty | 4/14/1975 | See Source »

...sense, Samphan's popularity was his undoing. Sihanouk forced him to resign in 1963, charging him with incompetence. Three years later, though, Samphan was elected to the National Assembly. One April evening in 1967, during a peasant uprising in Battambang province that had set off an antileftist witch hunt in the capital. Khieu Samphan simply vanished. According to his family, he told his mother that he was going out for a breath of fresh air before dinner and never came back...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The World: Khmer Rouge: The Enigmatic Ghosts | 3/31/1975 | See Source »

...foot speakers, see and when it's time for the quake, big waves of low intensity sound roll out across the audience, untying shoelaces and knocking out denture plates. The special effects put DeMille to shame and if you're from the cast, the sight of seeing the Wicked Witch of the West crumble into stinking ashes will fill you with joy for days. They're not going to make any disaster films that will beat this for fun A piece of advice sit in the front row to get the full effect of Sensurround but remember, "The Management...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE SCREEN | 3/27/1975 | See Source »

...seized the occasion to make political statements to reporters. ("... It's not in the Soviet Union where civil liberties are most infringed, but in South Viet Nam.") In the movie Fonda is cast as Night, Ava Gardner as Luxury, Cicely Tyson as Cat, while Elizabeth Taylor plays Light, Witch, Mother and Maternal Love. Director George Cukor's difficulties in communicating with Soviet artists and cameramen has threatened the film's projected summer completion. "I'm sending for my children to be with me for Easter," Mother Taylor told Fonda. "And Christmas...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Mar. 10, 1975 | 3/10/1975 | See Source »

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