Word: hamilton
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...boulders for good measure. Presiding over the ruins is, of course, a wicked witch (Jean Marsh), who lacks a broomstick but has several dozen changes of head in her closet. Her transformations are certain to fill young children with puzzled horror rather than with the delicious mirth that Margaret Hamilton generated with her over-the-top parody of evil...
...Santana isn't your speed, also on Friday night is the finals of the WBCN Rock Rumble in the Orpheum Theatre, Hamilton Place, Boston at 7:30 p.m., where some of Boston's baddest local bands will battle out for the championship...
...disgruntled Republicans wanted strict limits on the use of humanitarian aid, a promise to seek new bilateral talks and an acknowledgment that human rights in the four-year-old civil conflict had been violated not only by the Sandinistas but also by contra guerrillas. Reagan quickly complied. Said Republican Hamilton Fish of New York, who had voted against contra aid in April: "Everything I requested was accepted." Beyond the individual talking points, moreover, the Administration succeeded in convincing some skeptics in Congress that the aid package was a genuine step toward a diplomatic settlement. As drafted by National Security Adviser...
DIED. Margaret Hamilton, 82, character actress in 75 films and scores of plays who in her most memorable role, as the cackling, green-faced Wicked Witch of the West in 1939's classic The Wizard of Oz, became an incarnation of evil to generations of deliciously scared children; in Salisbury, Conn. Ironically, Hamilton was a kindergarten teacher before succumbing to the acting bug in 1932. She went on to portray dozens of stern spinsters, puritanical aunts and smarmy gossips, and was well known as the kindly storekeeper Cora in five years of Maxwell House coffee TV commercials...
...conclusion of the Columbia University blockade came three days after a New York State Supreme Court judge called the protect--a "safety hazard" and ordered the students to unlock the doors of Hamilton Hall...