Word: coven
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...Couched in the velvet, vibrance and vixens of medieval Constantinople and Venice, Armand continues the vampire exposition that began with Interview with the Vampire. Figuring to a small degree in Interview (whose later film spawned my eighth-grade obsession with Brad Pitt) was Armand, the head of the Paris coven of vampires. How was it that Armand rose to such otherworldly prominence? Armand relates its title character's rise from slavery to vampirism under the tutelage of Marius, a beautiful and seemingly omnipotent predator long in the business of the undead. In both language and imagery, Rice skillfully immerses...
...that all women really need to get rid of abusive boyfriends is a little witchcraft. Not only that, but Hollywood continues to try and convince us that the best way for women to bond outside of PTA phone trees and sewing bees is by holding a good old-fashioned coven. In what remains the most embarrassingly overplayed line in the whole movie, one of the town housewives turned coven-member brandishes her broom and says, "Come on ladies, it's time to clean house...
...brain is a delicate instrument with too much complex wiring; all the data give him ferocious migraines. Yet it is the brain of this loopy mathematician (Sean Gullette) that makes him a captive of powerful groups with dark designs--some Wall Street sharpies and a coven of Hasidic Cabalists. This no-budget ($60,000) New York City thriller offers a warning applicable to humans as well as computers: knowledge is a virus. But the real triumph of [Pi] is its sensuous chiaroscuro imagery (cream swirling in coffee, blood dripping from a man's jacket, Max's raccoon eyes after...
...department of motor vehicles; why are some of us so eager to ignore experience and ascribe to government a kind of Herculean can-do-ness? Here's one theory: if you're squeaking by on the minimum wage, it's probably more satisfying to focus your resentments on a coven of fbi Trilateralists than it is to curse abstractions like economic restructuring or low Filipino wages (no one's much interested in divining corporate conspiracies...
Nonetheless, he added that Coven is "awell-respected judge" and said that it was "hisprerogative" to make the comments...