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...actors revel in this atmosphere. Says Beverly D'Angelo, who plays a shrieking witch in Sleeping Beauty: "Every actor is a child, and what Shelley has basically done is build a playpen where we can go in and use words and just play." For Reeve, the experience was liberating: "You get back the sense of fun in acting, the feeling you had doing a school play like The Skin of Our Teeth, when you stayed afterward painting scenery...
...hearing last summer on the problems at the Environmental Protection Agency, Congressman John Hiler, an Indiana Republican, angrily accused the panel's Democrats of conducting a political witch hunt. "We are unfortunately doomed to have to undergo what has been an extraordinarily partisan hearing," he said. On reviewing the transcript of the hearing last month, Hiler discovered that his remark had been altered to read: "We are unfortunately doomed?" And there, astonishingly, the sentence ended. This and other surprising examples of phantom fiddling with the official record of House committee hearings had the effect of making Republicans look worse...
...looks like a fully equipped gym. It's every girl's dream," she laughs. Indeed, the only thing she won't do is scare people away with her looks. Admits Bergen: "I'm not wizened with warts. I'm more of a New Wave witch...
Among the more unusual strategies were the establishment of WITCH (Women's Inspirational Theological Coalition from Harvard) and a takeover of Thomas Professor of Divinity Harvey Cox's course on eschatology and liberation theology, at which the insurgents blew party noisemakers whenever any sexist comments were made, Schulman says...
...next act, the emotional balance shifts completely. Marjorie may be viewed either as an avenging angel or a paranoid witch. She has trussed up 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...