Word: witching
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Ruddigore's plot is long-winded and strange. The main character, Sir Ruthven Murgatroyd, the baronet of Ruddigore, is hiding in a small English village in order to escape a family curse. A misguided witch doomed each successive baronet to commit one crime a day or be killed. Ruthven left his brother, Despard, back at Ruddigore to assume the title of baronet and fall victim to the curse. Meanwhile, having adopted the clever pseudonym "Robin," Ruthven falls in love with the village sweet-heart, the prissy flake Rose Maybud. For the rest of the first act, Ruthven competes with...
...just walked out of an eight-week NOW boot camp, she struts into his office with the utmost confidence. With her hair tied rigidly behind her head and wearing a dark suit, Carol looks nothing like the innocent girl she was before. She looks more like a postmodern witch. Mamet reaches his lowest point with this stereotypical view of women who press sexual harassment charges...
...Juliet's minds as a fetid garden, where fairytale plots of courtly love and castle intrigue blot out their edgy lives at home and school. The girls' vision of Borovnia utterly mesmerizes them. Anyone who would break the spell -- like Pauline's sweet, anxious mum -- must be a witch. Must be sentenced to death...
...generic witch...
...This is ridiculous," said house resident Ricardo J. Suarez '95. "This is just a petty political witch-hunt that's given the committee a bad name. I don't think we would all agree that all of our problems are attributable to Allison...