Word: witch
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...That witch next door may be just a friendly neopagan...
...Guidelines. Executives have been warily watching the Administration carry on a virtual witch hunt to find and name violators of the anti-inflation price guidelines. Staff members of the Council on Wage and Price Stability have said for weeks that they have been under orders to find someone-anyone-who is breaking the guidelines. Notes Jack Carlson, chief economist of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce: "The wage and price control program has been a failure, and they're looking for someone to blame...
Well, lo and behold, there is. Unfortunately, he costs $100,000, and the heroine apparently doesn't have Blue Cross. Enter Michael's wicked witch of a wealthy mother (Beatrice Straight), wearing more eyelashes than all the Gabors combined. Mom doesn't like Nancy because Nancy's Dad, long deceased, was once an armed robber. But Mom will fork over the hundred grand if Nancy agrees to stay away from Michael for ever. The pact is sealed, and Nancy gets some new flesh to go with her stitches. With the help of a shrink, she even...
...Bolger dance you off to the Emerald City in the sweetest fashion this side of a tornado. This movie just doesn't seem to fade--and how could it, with classic songs, great cameos, and munchkins to boot. Cynics in the crowd may yell "Cora!" when the wicked witch appears on the screen, but those are the kind of people who liked Animal House and so be it. This is undoubtedly the ultimate Hollywood fantasy movie from the good old days of the Depression. See it and be a kid again...
Bloch's view is part of her new book, So the Witch Won't Eat Me (Houghton Mifflin; $9.95). Despite its slightly frivolous title, its central idea is quite serious. After 25 years' work with some 600 patients, most of them children, she concludes that fear of infanticide is crucial in early psychological development and sometimes in later psychological problems as well. Among her patients, she points out, she "never found anyone who did not have this fear and whose lifestyle was not designed to deal with...