Word: crucifixes
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Furthermore, the characters frequently cross themselves. And much is made of a crucifix from time to time; even one of the witches wears a pectoral cross. When Macbeth sits on his ill-gained throne and exclaims, "To be thus is nothing," he rips the cross from his chest and throws it to the floor, whence, in a neatly ironic touch, it is shortly picked up and handed back to him by the First Murderer...
Miss Murphy does have one marvelous piece of business in her "unsex me here" soliloquy. When she summons "thick night" and the "smoke of hell," she grabs the pointed crucifix hanging around her neck and spits on it. At the words "my keen knife" she inverts the cross, turning it into a lethal dagger. This is an electrifying moment, altogether fitting for a play in which "fair is foul" and everything is topsy-turvy...
...tiny coke spoon. These dainty scoops, sometimes made of gold or silver and worn as jewelry, are enjoying a vogue of their own. One design in Manhattan is in the shape of a woman and sells for $55. In Boston, a favorite variation takes the form of a crucifix-with the long end hollowed...
...developments in the black art of scaring up tickets. As Macbeth, Anthony Hopkins is a restless animal, hopelessly possessed, feeding on eerie fears until they devour him. But soft, who is that lady he was seen with? That lady whose steely resolve disintegrates in guilt, who seizes her crucifix like a dagger, spits venomously on its tip, and invokes the spirits of night to fill her with direst cruelty...
...Eboli fell dead. Sternfeld said he did not see the killers. But he did not explain the contradictory fact that there were bloodstains on the inside of Eboli's car, and authorities held him as a witness under $250,000 bail. Eboli, freshly barbered and wearing a gold crucifix around his neck, was found with $2,077 in a pocket of his blue sports jacket...