The Palestinians' orgiastic celebration of the mass murder of Israelis was the final nail in Barak's premiership, and it seemed at the time, the death-knell of his policies of appeasement.

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In thrall to the creative energy she feels emanating from the Master (brilliantly doubled with Woland by Paul Rhys), she ultimately agrees to rub antiaging cream into her nude body, mount a broomstick and join in an orgiastic witches' Sabbath to rescue the Master and his work.

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