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Except for Seymour, all of Charlie's best friends are girls. The woman he really wants is Gilian Prosper (Salome Jens), a sex witch who "ignites without satisfying." None of the love affairs in But for Whom Charlie are particularly satisfying, and it would take a Syntopi-con to cross-reference their capricious complexity. What is satisfying is a foxy grandpa of a one-shot novelist, Brock Dunnaway, wittily played by David Wayne. A gadfly of sanity, Brock mocks the impotent heroes of modern drama, the internationale of homosexuals ("the homintern") and the "moment of truth" cultists...
Okello quickly took to the radio, boasting and threatening like a mad witch doctor. "It is I, the field marshal, who speaks," he boomed, posturing in his specially designed black uniform. "The power behind me is 999,999,000. I shall take severe measures, 88 times more severe than my predecessors. Anyone looting even a bar of soap will be liable to jail for no less than eight years. I can make 100 grenades in an hour...
...seems to be in the midst of a mild little revival of black magic. Recently, the Rev. J. L. Head of St. Clements at Leigh-on-Sea, Essex, found a sheep's heart stuck with 13 thorns on the grave of a woman believed to have been a witch. On All Souls' Eve, gravestones were overturned and hexes traced on the graveyard of the parish church in Appleton, Berkshire...
...nation faces pressing problems. The per capita income is only $56 a year, and the population is still so primitive that in last summer's general election both the Nationalist Party and the opposition Afro-Shirazi Party hired witch doctors to influence the results...
...Times-Union took defensive note of the wave of anger that, in the first hours after Kennedy's death, seemed to focus on the far right. The assassination, said the Times-Union, "must not be allowed to become the cause célèbre for a witch-hunt against those who, for reasons of principle and honor, have chosen not to follow the line of those in power but who have acted out their part as a 'loyal opposition...