Word: witchcraft
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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PAUL VERHOEVEN'S thriller opens with a shot of a screen-sized spider devouring its helpless prey. The movie ends on the same picture. While the two hours in between are entertaining enough a witty and sometimes outrageous romance complete with homosexual obsession, witchcraft, and enough lurid fantasy to earn the picture an X. The Fourth Man is nonetheless predictable and studied, almost like a computer's wet dream...
...think that would become obvious. I've had my two nights' sleep. " In a wry reference to George Bush's famous crack in 1980 that his then rival Ronald Reagan believed in "voodoo economics," Hart pointed out that "neither of us accused the other of witchcraft...
...Holyoke Center offers a wide range of classical and modern works on theology and spirituality, though one should be prepared to spend a lot of money for enlightenment here. The Shambhala Booksellers (58 John F. Kennedy St.) offers an impressive selection in comparative religion, healing, occult sciences (Tarot, witchcraft, Qabalah), and mythology. These places are for the esoterically minded...
They are randomly promiscuous: "Being a divorcee in a small town is a little like playing Monopoly, eventually you land on all the properties." Although they cast spells over their ex-husbands that reduced all three to inert household objects, their witchcraft is ordinarily mischievous rather than malign. When Alexandra wants to walk her dog on the beach without a leash, she simply conjures up a thunderstorm to drive bathers away...
...which were widely associated with both sorcery and sexuality, and which were often burned on religious holidays. But why did the printers find that funny? By "accidentally" including the pet along with the alley cats, they were not only symbolically punishing the master but symbolically accusing his wife of witchcraft and symbolically raping her. And getting away with...