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Frankly, I'm a little appalled that the mothers and fathers of America are anti-Potter for religious reasons. There is far less religion apparent in Potters adventures than there ever was in another acclaimed Narnia series, starting with The Lion the Witch and the Wardrobe. C. S. Lewis' books were a thinly veiled Christian tract where God posed as a lion named Aslan...
...confounding novelty of this crowded winter carnival. And in '92 we found out that the pundits (even in their tentative comments and predictions) had the odds all wrong--the third horse really matters. Anti-Politics helps Arkansas Anti-Hero nose out Hero in Iraqi-Khaki. Never mind the Blair Witch Project and New Hampshire, Buchanan and weeks of eerie pollster silence on the topic must be starting to make George W. Bush feel that the State House is haunted...
...like it was pasted together in a high school video class, and the technical crew is never going to win any awards for incredible special effects. But instead of detracting from the show, these unpolished aspects serve to heighten enjoyment and run up the fear factor. Like the Blair Witch Project this summer, the scare lies in the unknown, the monster lurking in the shadows who never quite reveals himself. The thrill lies in the psychological, not the tangible, possibilities...
...raucous street party in Salem over the weekend, and the whole year-round industry that has sprung up in town around witches and witchcraft, is a sort of macabre parody of a gruesome episode in the town's history. Everyone who comes to Haunted Happenings, the official name of the celebration, knows what happened in Salem to put it on the Halloween map. But that's just one more reason to buy the T-shirt. In the end, the witch trials are just a great excuse for a party...
...what they think is beside the point. Most of the people in Salem Sunday night weren't there to pass out fliers or light candles by the Witch Trials Memorial on New Liberty Street. They were there to have...