Back when my kids were young, I worked from home as a freelance magazine writer, and more often than not, I'd get a callback from a source right around five o'clock, known to parents everywhere as the witching hour.
But the witching hour is fast approaching when the movement that came to solve the Jewish problem may itself become the problem.
Montmartre, St Germain-des-Pres and the Latin Quarter are as lively and colourful at the witching hour as they are at midday – perhaps more so.
To reach the quarters, he used a mixture of braggadocio, belief and barracudalike backhand winners in a 3-6, 7-6 (8), 1-6, 6-3, 7-6 (4) victhat thas, as it wore on toward the witching hour, reduced Aaron Krickstein to a victim in a public nightmare -- a 4-hour-41-minute nightmare.
In past weeks, this has been the witching hour: As people get off work and flood into Mong Kok, opposing groups face off across the barricades with verbal arguments frequently turning physical.
Most scenes in the play take place in the witching hour between screenings, as Sam and Avery pass through the empty theatre with their dustpans, gabbing about movies and life.
As the sun set over Queens on Wednesday, the witching hour began in the pediatric emergency room at Schneider Children's Hospital.
"People can come and go as usual or choose to stay and enjoy the party until the witching hour," Levine says.
This year this included concerts by such musical luminaries as Norway's Dumdum Boys and Taliban Airways - with 12.46 P.M. on March 8 the witching hour, or rather moment.
