Word: witches
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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CAST has cleverly designed this exhibit to expand on or dispel much of the common knowledge and stereotypes assigned to the Chinese country and people. Acupuncture is explained and portrayed in the medical context in which it originated, rather than in the witch-doctor reputation it has outside China. A display featuring the artistry and dress of the Miso tribe, a minority group living in southwest China, reveals to visitors that contrary to popular belief, the Chinese are not one uniform race...
...rediscovers it is about as wondrous as East Berlin in a brownout. Seems that the Nome King, who is a talking rock (stonily played by Nicol Williamson), has trashed the place and turned its inhabitants into boulders for good measure. Presiding over the ruins is, of course, a wicked witch (Jean Marsh), who lacks a broomstick but has several dozen changes of head in her closet. Her transformations are certain to fill young children with puzzled horror rather than with the delicious mirth that Margaret Hamilton generated with her over-the-top parody of evil...
DIED. Margaret Hamilton, 82, character actress in 75 films and scores of plays who in her most memorable role, as the cackling, green-faced Wicked Witch of the West in 1939's classic The Wizard of Oz, became an incarnation of evil to generations of deliciously scared children; in Salisbury, Conn. Ironically, Hamilton was a kindergarten teacher before succumbing to the acting bug in 1932. She went on to portray dozens of stern spinsters, puritanical aunts and smarmy gossips, and was well known as the kindly storekeeper Cora in five years of Maxwell House coffee TV commercials...
...more unusual aspects of the show is that it will be held in the Hasty Pudding Club's bar, which seats about 100, according to LaCrosby. LaCrosby, who played in this year's Pudding show "Witch and Famous," says that the bar is "a very intimate space. The bar gives it a cosy feeling, like a cabret...
...anti-Communist witch-hunt that Sen. Joseph McCarthy introduced into American public life extended long after Tail Gunner Joe drank himself to death. The mainstream, as represented by Eisenhower. Kennedy, and Johnson, was so afraid of re-awakening the venomous far-Right that it felt compelled to demonstrate its unflinching opposition to Communism around the world. It was perceived as soft on the Reds, it felt doomed. This is why liberal Harvard-educated Kennedy felt compelled to risk nuclear annihilation over missiles in Cuba, while Nixon, a man who made his reputation as a Red baiter, could embrace...