Word: witch
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Anita Bryant's campaign [June 20] to deny fundamental civil rights to homosexuals will flounder and fail as have all other witch hunts that have preceded hers. These misguided crusades, all supposedly "God supported," are eventually wrecked on the rock of fundamental decency that exists and supports this best of all countries...
Just as the Munchkins celebrated the death of the Wicked Witch of the West, India celebrated Gandhi's defeat last month. But now that the celebration is over, India, unlike Munchkinland, has to face the most crucial question: how will the new government differ from the old one? Will it improve the government or break down because of the factionalism that Gandhi suggested in her campaign slogan 'Stability or Chaos...
...James Coco) is no freak in spirit. In his desperate need for love, his touching vulnerability, and his wistful desire for the approval of other children, he is linked to every human being who ever has been or ever will be born. His mother (Rosemary De Angelis), an embittered witch, treats Benno like scum and heaps epithets on him like offal. His father (Roger Serbagi) does not hate Benno, but one minute is about the attention span of his concern, so it comes to the same thing. Denied, neglected, degraded by everyone he turns to, Benno devours ice cream...
...your average put-on-a-jockstrap (sorry, that's sexist)-and-let's-get-at-it sport. It's one that requires jumps from upwards of 45 meters, one that most people consider as sane as having a meeting during The Wizard of Oz. (Are you a good witch or a bad witch? I'm a good witch...
...dull moments, but they were hard to detect at Boston's Orpheum Theater, the shabby old moviehouse that currently shelters Sarah and her troupe. Fire belched from a dragon's mouth. A huge severed head blinked a bloodshot eye and sang. Horses flew. So did a witch on a broomstick. So did Russlan and an evil magician, dueling madly away above a castle. How Caldwell managed all that (the stage at the Orpheum is only 26 feet deep and has no wing space to speak of) is her secret. It is enough to say that the results were...