Witching
Continued from Page 9
and the opposite end of the coin, the
working-class Irish on the other side
of Magazine Street, Michael’s home.
Rice never lets the breadth of her
tale get the better of her. She manages
to sustain tension as she keeps her
reader frantically turning the pages
the find out the dark secret of the
Mayfairs.
Just when the reader feels lulled
from the stories within the story that
have been unfolding, or sick from so
much love between Rowan and Mi
chael, Rice ruthlessly brings the ac
tion back to the present day. She races
fonvard through the last three hundred
pages to bring the saga to a startling
climax on Christmas Eve, where
everything finally makes terrible sense,
and we learn what seems to be Rice’s
ultimate convictions about art, the
world and human existence itself.
Unlike “The Queen of the Damned,”
her most recent Vampire installment,
“The Witching Hour” does not end
happily and playfully. As with all her
novels, there is final redemption. But
“The Witching Hour” leaves a dis
turbing impression lingering in the
air, rather like the now-you-see-thcm,
now-you-don’t spirits that Rice uses
to such believable effect.
Rice’s peculiar strength is that,
although on the surface fantastical,
her world winds up seeming daz
^Ihigly, perfectly real. Instead of asking
the reader to suspend disbelief, Rice
deftly introduces histories that lead
one to doubt what he or she knows to
be “true.”
Rice’s world is a Gothic one. But
what is Gothicism if not the deeper,
darker flipside of reality?
The only flaw in the novel is Chap
ter 2, in which Rice tries to condense
the life of Michael Curry into about
60 pages and tell us everything we’ve
ever wanted to know about this char
acter. While she certainly develops
him fully, the long chapter makes it
necessary for her to tell everything
about Michael rather than show us the
full character development.
Some of the characters also do not
emerge as fully as others, mainly some
of the generations of witches who
come to light within the Talamasca’s
file on the Mayfairs. Fortunately,
characters like Rowan, the ruthless
Carlotta Mayfair, the mysterious
Deborah and Lasher himself, the
demon lover and curse of the May
fairs, spring vividly to life.
The novel’s other fault is that it is
such compulsive reading that it may
tempt students to take too much time
off from their textbooks to read “just
one more chapter” or “two more para
graphs.”
“The Witching Hour” is sure to
keep many devoted Rice readers up
well past that hour.
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whose family was massacred by
Native Americans, yet was raised
by Native Americans — is fasci
nating. And in an interesting twist,
' McDonnell’s character as a child,
Christine, is played by Costner’s
daughter Annie.
It would not be surprising to see
McDonnell, most recently of Wendy
Wasserstein’s Pulitzer Prize-win
ning play “The Heidi Chronicles,”
walk away with a Best Actress or
Best Supporting Actress nomina
tion for this performance.
Greene, as Kicking Bird, is in
spiring and commanding. A full
blooded Oneida, Greene was bom
on the Six Nations Reserve in
Ontario, Canada, and brings sensi
tivity and talent to his role.
Costner is to be commended for
utilizing talented Native American
actors to play Native American
roles in this film. His casting choices
(along with those of casting direc
tor Elisabeth Leustig) were inspired
The cast works as an ensemble
better than just about any other
ensemble cast ever assembled.
Credit also must go to screen
writer and author Michael Blake. It
is his richly visual book, “Dances
With Wolves,” that this film is
based upon.
“Dances With Wolves” is play
ing at the Douglas 3 Theatre, 1300
PSt. _
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In the corner, Vance was putting the move
on two females — unaware that his fake hood
had begun to slip.
IRS
Continued from Page 9
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There are several notable I.R.S.
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Baton, Caterwaul, Concrete Blonde
— and folks may wish only that the
LP had included more. But that’s a
quibble. ‘‘Just In Time for Christmas”
should give alternative music lovers
plenty to be thankful for, and put even
the worst Scrooges in a merry mood.
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cyclist)
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51 Beatles hit
56 Not any
57 Edgar or Clio
58 Cinema terrier
59 Friend of Antony
60 Pithy
61 Marsh grass
62 Jimjams
63 Fur made his
fortune
64 Some are tight
DOWN
1 Cook in little
liquid
2 Painted the town
red
3 Royal-robe
trimming
4 She dwelt
among the
untrodden
Wordsworth
5 Dry laKe
6 Whirlybird s
twirler
7 Beige
8 Two of a kind
9 Kind of dunk
10 Like some
dangerous cars
11 Kind of bra or
stocking
12 James of
Gunsmoke"
15 Venetian resort
20 Kind of plug
21 Freer display
26 Where to see
heather
27 Trigonometric
functions
28 Granny or half
hitch
29 Norma
Glaspell novel
32 Band ot African
warriors
33 Depot, in
Dieppe
34 Against
35 Plumbago plant
36 Pot mariorams
37 Inquired
40 Checked
4lFDR's
successor
43 Untie
44 Praised
extravagantly
45 Precious violins,
for short
47 Chemical
endings
48 Trunk
49 Kind of berry
52 So 'ong
53 Becomes
encumbered
54 Red deer
55 Quick, agile,
lively