Word: witch
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...process, it is believed, cure sick cows and exorcise the possessed. Their illiteracy, Dalrymple explains, allows them to hold lines in their heads as readers never could. In a fire-lit cremation ground in Bengal, we see politicians, even communists, coming to a woman regarded as a witch to sacrifice goats in advance of an election. The woman, who lives among jackals in the burning ground, tells us why it's best to drink blood from the skull of a suicide or virgin. As an erudite scholar, Dalrymple gives us a precedent and a context for all this...
...enrolled in English 128, attending A.R.T. adaptations of Shakespeare plays helps enliven the classroom experience. “It makes you more interested when you’re reading to say ‘Oh, that’s interesting—this witch thing would be really great if you adapted that…I wonder what’s gonna happen with that when I see it performed...
...Show us heads exploding, chests busting, legs sawed off. Yet the packed audience at a late-night screening of Paranormal Activity in Times Square this past week didn't need gore effects to be scared witless. Yes, they knew it was only a movie - one that, like The Blair Witch Project and Cloverfield and plenty others before it, used "found footage" to give a patina of realism to the fanciful events that were dreamed up by writer-director Oren Peli and are endured by actors Micah Sloat and Katie Featherston (using their real names). But when that door moved...
...more gentile climes, only God knows. More Than a Game, the inspirational sports drama (is there any other kind?) starring NBA titan LeBron James, was no winner, earning less than the Coen movie in twice as many theaters. The real specialty buzz was for Paranormal Activity, a Blair Witch-y haunted-house thriller that reportedly scared the pants off Steven Spielberg. Paramount has been showing it in college towns the past two weekends, asking viewers to vote online if they wanted the movie shown more widely. Shot for a joke-small $15,000, Paranormal has already earned...
...music scholarship. Finn, we didn’t know you were capable of manipulative scheming! Shameless. The truth comes out, and Rachel lets him have it -- a welcome change from her tiresome moping. FlyBy loved that she also has a verbal catfight with Glinda the Good Witch Chenoweth herself. April gets her moment in the spotlight, repents (a bit), and steps aside in time for Rachel's overdue return and the finale...