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...reprint in their entirety both the original article and the response as a service to those who will soon fill a coven of blue-books...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Exam Period | 5/15/1989 | See Source »

...minored in dramatics, marched for peace, voted Republican for the last time in 1968 ("I believed Nixon when he said he'd get us out of Viet Nam"), and met his future wife, a woman whose unlikely name, Tabitha Spruce, seems to have been plucked from a Stephen King coven. She remembers him as an imposing figure, a "campus institution" who wrote a weekly column called "King's Garbage Truck" for the school newspaper. Recalls Stephen: "Tabby looked like a waitress. She came across -- and still does -- as a tough broad." After graduation they married; when he was unable...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: King of Horror | 10/6/1986 | See Source »

...main plot, about the search for a sacred stone stolen by a coven of Indian thugs and used to augment sadistic black-magic rituals in the bowels of the temple of doom, need not concern us here. Suffice it to say that the new film is more an embellishment than an improvement on the snazzy Raiders. If you enjoyed seeing skeletons rise on spikes, or Indy snap his trusty bullwhip around a steel-willed woman, or the two of them trapped in a cave with uggy crawling things, you should be amused to see them again. Again you will savor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Keeping the Customer Satisfied | 5/21/1984 | See Source »

...hood," three women divorce their husbands, tug their children into the vortex of downward economic mobility and take up careers. Alexandra Spofford makes clay figurines, Jane Smart plays the cello, and Sukie Rougemont writes a gossip column for the local paper. These friends meet almost every Thursday, as a coven of genuine, practicing witches: "In the right mood and into their third drinks they could erect a cone of power above them like a tent to the zenith...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Fruits of Blossoming Selfhood | 5/7/1984 | See Source »

...beauteous smiles, Silver settles down to give a solid performance with stunning interludes. The strength of Silver's performance in her final confrontation with her husband Juan (Paul O'Brien) salvages the final scene: the audience can focus its attention on Silver and try and forget the witches' coven that has convened on the right-hand side of the stage...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Overambition | 11/16/1983 | See Source »

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