Word: ghosted
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Yesterday. The Beatles are back. Or rather, their collective ghost will be resurrected at a three-day convention of Beatle-maniacs starting today at the Bradford Hotel, 275 Tremont St. in Boston. The whole thing is being put together by a 27-year-old full-time Beatle-maniac named Joe Pope, who spends the year editing a magazine called Strawberry Fields, roaming all over the country searching for Beatle memorabilia, and revving up for the annual convention. A few years ago, Pope had the idea of giving a party for a few of his friends who were heavily into...
...where Carson lived in a household that included W.H. Auden, Benjamin Britten and Richard Wright, among others; to the obligatory artists' colonies (Yaddo, Bread Loaf); even to London and Paris. Early on, she grabs her fey and monstrous main character by the toe and never lets go. The ghost of McCullers does the rest...
...czarist Russia makes a great backdrop for absurd humor because the ghost of Dostoevsky and his philosophic pals allows Allen to capitalize on the incongruity of ancient questions and modern options ("Moses was right. The good man shall dwell in the House of the Lord for six months with an option...
Holly Hill, Orangeburg, Columbia, Clinton-the exits along 1-26 in South Carolina loom in the muggy night like guideposts to ghost towns as the 1958 General Motors coach grinds west. Its odometer creaks past 620,000 miles. The Spartanburg Phillies of the Western Carolinas League-25 eager minor league baseball players-are heading home after losing a night game to the Charleston Pirates. They have not eaten since they left Spartanburg nearly twelve hours ago for the outbound leg of the 420-mile, one-day road trip. Pitcher Jerry Houston and Infielder Raul Nieves are asleep, crammed into...
...overshadow it is to turn them into monuments. In the case of Edmund Wilson, the process was well under way two years ago when he died at 77-already muffled in a banner bearing the legend "Distinguished Man of Letters." But here, in The Twenties, Wilson's ghost puts in a timely appearance that should forestall too much veneration-breaking out the gin, putting a record on the Victrola and eagerly looking over every pretty flapper in the room...