Word: witching
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...Joint weekend field project: Gore and Bush collaborate on a remake of "The Blair Witch Project." Each brings his own compass. Who makes it home? One? Both? Neither...
...literature are insightful. In her chapter on "The Futurist Shift," Gurianova draws a connection between Rozanova's lithographs made to embellish Kruchenykh's narrative poem Game in Hell and the "denizens of the underworld" of Gogol and Pushkin. Noting how Rozanova, in one of these lithographs, "Naked Witch with a Broom," plays with physical forms, assigning a witch's head to a devil's body and vice versa, Gurianova develops a key theme, the "play principle." Gurianova further identifies this displacement of objects and their parts as a typical futurist device...
...recent years Roth has found inspiration in history and sociology. Ira Ringold, in I Married a Communist, is a left-wing actor caught up in Joe McCarthy's '50s witch-hunts. The wrenching American Pastoral drew on the anarchy of the '60s and '70s. Swede Levov, glove manufacturer and good suburbanite, is devastated when his daughter becomes a fugitive terrorist...
...dilute the force of the term? Why is The Fox and the Hound a Disney Masterpiece? Whatever.) So, looking at those, you'll realize a common feature - the best Disney movies all have _female_ villains. Everyone remembers Cruela de Vil, the Wicked Queen in Snow White, Ursula the Sea Witch, Maleficent, Madame Medusa - but who remembers the fat guy in Pocohontas, the evil dude in The Aristocats, or any of the various gun-toting hunters? The truth is, the femme fatales are the nastiest, most memorable characters - kids have nightmares about them, adults actually see menace in their evil, they...
Such Lazarus acts, while rare, have become less so lately, with six networks looking for content. CBS picked up its hit JAG from NBC, and the WB just spirited off ABC's teen-witch com, Sabrina. (ABC's psych-ward drama, Wonderland, and on-hiatus Sports Night may also shop themselves around.) But Apatow admits the re-Freaking of TV is a long shot. "If anyone needs to fill an hour with NBC's lowest-rated show," he cracks, "they...