Word: witchingly
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...plenty of friends to help her though--a strange collection of supporting characters including a clairvoyant, a witch-doctor, and a psychologist...
...recently become a trademark of Latin American productions. But here it somehow manages to seem fresh as clouds boil around the head of an angry Celeste and magic potions glow with cosmic energy. Indeed, the fortune-telling visions of the astrologist and the odd herbal concoctions of the witch-doctor seem hardly stranger than the post-Freudian tactics of the head-shrinker...
...sounds like the sort of remedy a witch doctor might dream up: take blood from the discarded placenta of a newborn baby and inject it into a child suffering from leukemia. But it is not voodoo. According to a study of 25 children published in the New England Journal of Medicine last week, the unusual treatment may work better than a bone-marrow transplant in treating the childhood cancer. Placental blood might even be used someday to treat other blood and immune-system disorders--from sickle-cell anemia to AIDS...
...from the wave that hides their dory in Kissing the Moon, 1904, or the breaking wave on the rocks in West Point, Prout's Neck, 1900, that flings up an S curve of foam that might be a sinuous white torso: the ghost of a female presence, a water witch...
...Whitewater muck. For one thing, they rejected a central tenet of Clinton's Whitewater theology. By basing their decision on documentary evidence and discounting the testimony of both Clinton and the defendants' chief accuser, David Hale, they undermined the White House argument that the investigation is a baseless, partisan witch hunt. Now it doesn't matter so much that no one can follow the storyline, says G.O.P. chairman Haley Barbour, because "they said 'guilty' 24 times...