Word: witchingly
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...floor. You can cite a host of precedents for this, from Claes Oldenburg to Jackson Pollock, but the effect really depends on the nakedness with which Kelley presents the toys as elements in a free-form psychodrama about threat and vulnerability; they're like the dolls that witch- hunting lawyers use to elicit the evidence of children in abuse prosecutions. The most successful thing in the Whitney show is a reworking of Man Ray's famous Surrealist object, the wrapped-up sewing machine. Entitled Lumpenprole, it is a room-size afghan rug with (what else?) lumps, the size of children...
...such accuser, Elizabeth Knapp, had lengthy fits, barked like a dog, made apish gestures and said that she would be unhealthy until the witch, her tormenter, was apprehended. Her minister, who observed her closely, was almost certain that the fits were real and that the devil was indeed speaking through her. Later, however--after the trials were over--Knapp admitted that the "apparitions she had spoken of were but fancies." Her mind, apparently, had deceived...
...Multicultural America, some Indian sages had forecast the coming of white-skinned aliens. On his deathbed, a chief of New England's Wampanoag tribe said that strange white people would come to crowd out the Indians. As a sign, a great white whale would rise out of the witch pond. The night he died, the whale rose, just as he had predicted. Similar prophecies about predatory whites can be found in the lore of Virginia's Powhatans and the Ojibwa of Minnesota...
...disgust that Democrats express over the witch-hunt, the shoe could just as easily be on the other foot. Previous nominees Douglas Ginsburg and Robert Bork, who suffered equally vituperative attacks from the left, can attest to that. But the current campaign has been remarkably effective in preventing the Clinton Administration from getting policy initiatives off the ground...
...attacks, often from influential quarters. As early as 1909, philosopher William James observed in a letter that Freud "made on me personally the impression of a man obsessed with fixed ideas." Vladimir Nabokov, whose novels trace the untrammeled and unpredictable play of individual imaginations, regularly tossed barbs at "the witch doctor Freud" and "the Viennese quack." For similar reasons, Ludwig Wittgenstein objected to the pigeonholing effects of psychoanalytic categories, even though he paid Freud a backhanded compliment in the process: "Freud's fanciful pseudo explanations (precisely because they are so brilliant) perform a disservice. Now any ass has these pictures...