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Before computers and pop-culture fetishizing, there was a different breed of geek. Even more loathed and degraded than his modern ancestor, this geek was a literal freak - a sideshow act - a man willing to growl like an animal and bite the heads off chickens for his daily fifth of cheap booze. Along with confidence men, carnies and cops, the geek is just one of the grimy characters of William Lindsay Gresham's cult 1946 novel "Nightmare Alley," now turned into a gripping graphic novel by the veteran comix artist known as Spain...
...freak goal late in the second period, a Michael Watson insurance tally at 9:16 of the third, and 35 saves from goaltender Wade Lau propelled the Harvard hockey team to a 2-0 victory over Boston College last night at Bright Center in the opening round of the ECAC playoffs...
...With a freak-show economy in which unemployment has reached 6%--a 50% increase since November 2000--but housing prices have stayed at or near historic highs, the number of homeless appears to be at its highest in at least a decade in a wide range of places across the U.S., according to Bush's own homelessness czar. "It's embarrassing to say that they're up," says czar Philip Mangano of the number, "but it's better to face the truth than to try to obfuscate...
...kids, they'd have to sign their firstborn away. But these guys, if you don't get the right hair and makeup person to show up, there's trouble." There's the ego massaging, convincing even C-list stars and their agents that the series are not has-been freak shows--shhh, it's our secret! "They had standards," Abrego says. "There were people who said, 'If Gary Coleman does the show, I won't do it.'" (Instead, they cast Webster's Emmanuel Lewis, who is the diminutive former child star who didn't do Celebrity Boxing...
...SUGGESTING YOUR SISTER IS A CONTROL FREAK? LINDA: To Loretta, if you drape your coat over a chair, the order of the cosmos comes to a screeching halt...