Word: witching
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Bewitched, on the other hand, succeeds because of its situation and not in spite of it. Elizabeth Montgomery and Dick York are newly weds. She is a witch. Her mother (Agnes Moorehead) is a witch too. And it is a pleasure to watch a man try to cope with a mother-in-law who is a real one. When, with dilated pupils, the bridegroom approaches the hotel bridal chamber, he suddenly finds himself standing in the lobby...
BEWITCHED (ABC, 9-9:30 p.m.). Based on that old Veronica Lake movie, I Married a Witch, this new series has Witch Elizabeth Montgomery married to Mortal Dick York, and Agnes Moorehead as the witch's mother who objects to her daughter's marrying "something that is 90% water, 6% potash and 4% mohair." Premi...
...Georgia backwoods who, in 30 short stories and two critically acclaimed novels (Wise Blood, The Violent Bear It Away}, explored the South's religious curiosities, finding among them such an appalling collection of lunatic prophets and murderous fanatics that one critic called her "a literary white witch," and she herself said, "I write from 9 to 12, and spend the rest of the day recuperating"; of lupus erythematosus (a rare tissue disease); in Milledgeville...
...Charge. Brodsky's haunting, moody, calculatedly nonpolitical verses were circulated by hand through intel lectual circles, won him a growing reputation. Inevitably, he came to the attention of the druzhinniki, the witch-hunting vigilantes whose jobs include directing traffic, controlling crowds and bringing recalcitrant intellectuals and other "hooligans" to justice...
...Burundi. Premier Adoula swallowed his pride and asked the U.N. for help. In flew a U.S. Air Force C-130 with armored cars and reinforcements. For the moment, the pygmoid threat to Bukavu seemed to have diminished. But the Congolese soldiers were taking no chances against mai Mulele: their witch doctors told them to wrap grass around their gun barrels in order to counter the magic water of the Bafulero...