Word: witching
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...cunning climactic assault, the Merry Men's arrows sizzle through the sky like happy Scuds, and the bustle of bodies and cameras produces congenial movie movement. Two of the actors carry this larkish spirit throughout the film. Geraldine McEwan, in devil-doll weeds, makes for a hilariously desiccated witch. And Alan Rickman, fairly drooling with delight at his own wickedness, plays the Sheriff of Nottingham as a vibrant cartoon villain: Snidely Whiplash rampant...
...anti-Los Angeles trend has gone far beyond mere carping to affect local elections all over the region. The influence grows in direct proportion to a city's proximity to L.A. In San Diego (pop. 1.1 million, vs. 875,000 in 1980), Los Angeles is regarded as the Wicked Witch of the North, just 120 miles away. "San Diego has never been sure of what it wanted to be when it grew up," remarks San Diego Tribune editor Neil Morgan. "What it did know was that it did not want to become...
...viewers -- to their shows?) It's hard to imagine many others being offended by the sappy sermonizing. Sunday Dinner doesn't engage the issue of religious faith so much as gawk at it: belief in God has become a character quirk, like having a funny job or being a witch. Lear has made a valiant effort to break one of TV comedy's last remaining taboos. But God has always been a better straight...
Despite Christianity's centuries of opposition to paganism, some old-line churches are opening up to the Goddess. A witch teaches in an institute at the Roman Catholic Holy Names College in California. A book by two United Methodist pastors proposes experimental Bible readings about the crucifixion that replace Jesus with Sophia (Wisdom), a name for the divine personality used by Goddess-minded Christians...
...First Lady really a witch? And has author Kitty Kelley gone...