Word: witch
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...sounds like Utopia, like Oz's Munchkinland after Dorothy squashed the wicked witch and everyone jumped up from hiding to do a dance. "People are turning out because of the Internet--they don't have to be mobilized," says Beck. One motivator, oddly, is nostalgia, an emotion that the Internet accelerates. Events in Seattle cast an afterglow that continues to spread in the retelling. Kelly Vaughan, 20, a senior at Chicago's DePaul University, recalls sitting at her computer last November poring over e-mail accounts of the frontline action. She instantly relayed the news to a list of about...
...chance came Wednesday night, at her friend Sister Jeanne O'Laughlin's Miami Beach home. Police cars lined streets; patrol boats cruised on the canal behind the house. Demonstrators shouted in Spanish that Reno was a witch. For 2 1/2 hours she talked with Elian, Lazaro, Marisleysis and their Miami handlers, as Elian moved from lap to lap. At one point during the negotiations, the boy even began playing with one of Reno's security people. "You know, we could solve this real quick," the agent reportedly said. "I could walk out of here with him right...
...elderly spinster. Mix all of these elements together with a troupe of professional-and equally blushing-bridesmaids, add a chorus of dead Baronets, toss in a generous pinch of satire and a large dash of energetic singing and dancing, and you have none other than Ruddigore, or the Witch's Curse, presented by the Harvard-Radcliffe Gilbert and Sullivan Players...
...WITCH'S CURSE...
...webisodes. But in a sense, Behind (at www.that70sshow.com is more in tune with the dot-commerce age, because it's more ad than drama. Aimed at young Web surfers, the smart, saucy sitcom's natural audience, it's really a child of the ingenious Internet marketing for The Blair Witch Project. It was promoted entirely online--in part through Microsoft's MSN website--and the 10-minute episode, with hard-hitting information about the characters' period hairstyles, is strictly fan-club stuff. There's the all-empowering Web for you: why rely on Entertainment Tonight when you can do your...