Word: witches
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...continent. In Tangiers, he tried marijuana at the Casbali, the famous Morrocean sector of the city. He led one of the first camera crews to explore the abandoned French prison on Devils Island. And MacNeil single-handedly brought American television the facts behind the legend of the witch of western Ireland, Biddy Early...
...Navigating the orphanage at a permanent 40° tilt, like a sinking lighthouse, Burnett brings all her comic resourcefulness to a part no more demanding than those she played on her old TV show. In her hands, Miss Hannigan's malice is broad, precise, engaging, full of wicked-witch fun. The movie's malice...
...before the U.S. announced its support for Britain on April 30. While there were remarkably few reports of personal mistreatment of either Britons or Americans living in Argentina, the signs of ill feeling were unmistakable. The Argentine magazine Tal Cual lampooned British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher as a "pirate, witch and assassin." Radio stations were playing fewer English and American records. The Franco Inglesa, one of Buenos Aires' fashionable pharmacies, last week pointedly dropped the Inglesa. Fearing an increase of hostility, the U.S. embassy last week recommended that "nonessential" members of its 95-person staff and some dependents...
...Donald Barthelme, 51, Erica Jong, 40, E.L. Doctorow, 51, Calvin Trillin, 46, and Frances FitzGerald, 41. But perhaps the most impassioned protester was Actress Margaret Hamilton, 79, who in the 1939 film version of The Wonderful Wizard of Oz brought to life the character of the Wicked Witch of the West. Last week Hamilton did it again by reading from the original L. Frank Baum children's favorite, which was banned by the Detroit public school system in 1957 for its overly "negative" outlook. "Book censorship is like them taking a book out of my own home," huffed Hamilton...
...five-year economic joyride on the crest of rising worldwide petroleum prices has come to an end. Instead of enjoying swelling financial reserves and broadening prosperity for Mexico's 72 million citizens, the government of President José López Portillo finds itself confronting a witch's brew of staggering unemployment, rising inflation and pyramiding foreign debts...