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...done for so many other shameful episodes in its history: the Inquisition, Galileo and its conduct during World War II. As for the Vatican official quoted in your article who said, "Some of these women are well intentioned, but the bulk of them are power-hungry witches," someone needs to tell him that using witch as a derogatory term for women perceived as troublemakers by the Catholic Church went out of vogue a long time ago. CHRISTINE ALLAMANNO St. Petersburg...
...covers the theatrical writings of Shakespeare and scenes of conjuring, exorcism and magic. Texts range from "The Witch of Edmonton" and "Twelfth Night" to "Macbeth" and "The Tempest...
Carrier was the offspring of an old New England family--in fact, his many times great-grandmother, who was known for her "keen sense of justice and a sharp tongue," was hanged as a witch by the Puritans in Salem. The son of a farmer and a "birthright Quaker" mother, Carrier was the only child in a houseful of adults, including his grandparents and great-aunt. He seems to have been a born tinkerer and figurer-out of problems. Unfortunately, he was seriously handicapped by lack of wherewithal. He worked his way through high school, taught for three years...
Along the way there are intermittent pleasures: a nice updating of David Seville's Witch Doctor into a wild Tiki Room monkey jamboree; a sweet scene of Tommy and Dil learning to share a blanket. But the charm of the TV show has been coarsened and franticized. The film's writers (David N. Weiss and J. David Stem) and directors (Norton Virgien and Igor Kovalyov) have taken the Spielberg scenario as their template--children separated from their parents, then found--but this one has the harried air of The Goonies. And the film may have overestimated its hold...
...other hand, Hyde's list could easily be spun as a highly partisan attempt to embarrass the President, if not a verbal witch hunt. As aides may point out, Clinton has already answered many of the questions in his last two depositions. Some of them go beyond the scope of Starr?s report -- to ask about White House gumshoe Terry Lezner, for example. The list is highly repetitious -- some might say petty -- and contains mistakes that would shame a county lawyer. "Do you admit or deny that on or about Dec. 28, 1998 ?" begins one query. Nevertheless, it would...