Word: broomsticks
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...this time in 1931, Capa did not own a camera nor did he have any means of obtaining one. On the edge of both starvation and the broomstick of his landlady he swallowed his pride enough to live off of distant relatives and faint acquaintances until he got himself a camera and began shooting. With no prior photographic experience, his early days as a photographer were anything but propitious. Capa was especially atrocious in the darkroom where he would often destroy his negatives and sometimes those of others. But it was in his eyes that his talent lay. He knew...
...East Berlin in a brownout. Seems that the Nome King, who is a talking rock (stonily played by Nicol Williamson), has trashed the place and turned its inhabitants into boulders for good measure. Presiding over the ruins is, of course, a wicked witch (Jean Marsh), who lacks a broomstick but has several dozen changes of head in her closet. Her transformations are certain to fill young children with puzzled horror rather than with the delicious mirth that Margaret Hamilton generated with her over-the-top parody of evil...
...hoping Mazursky and Co-Scenarist Leon Capetanos will introduce some contrasting flavors. Until Vladimir encounters some afterthought muggers, everyone he meets is unfailingly helpful and kind; he has no difficulty finding jobs, an apartment, friends of both sexes. Yet every fairy tale needs to have a wicked witch; her broomstick is always useful as a lever to pry us upright in our seats and as a goad to keep us there. -By Richard Schickel
...book about Indians and started to build a tepee in here," he said. "Nelle vetoed that." Reagan rubbed a hand over a huge brass ball on the bedstead in his parents' room and recalled that he had taken one from the original bed frame, put it on a broomstick and used the contraption as a baton to lead the Y.M.C.A. band...
...Raul in the fireplace and pinned a white blindfold around his head. She has clamped the head of a brass bedstead in front so that the fireplace resembles a prisoner's cell or an animal's cage. She pokes Raul in the stomach and groin with a broomstick, pours ammonia on him pretending it is gasoline, and peppers him with matches, threatening to burn him to death...