Word: ghosted
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...shortages of labor, fuel, fertilizer and seed-Afghanistan's agriculture is fast deteriorating. According to one estimate, wheat production was five times greater in 1978 than it was last year. In the Logar province and in isolated villages around the country, entire settlements have been reduced to ghost towns...
...most of all, Menenhetet's tells about sex. He was quite a stud in his time, and in the course of 700 pages we are trusted to perhaps 300 episodes of sex. Not just garden variety copulation either. The works. Even when he's a ghost he has sex. This may be indicative of life in ancient Egypt; certainly a look at the statuary of the time shows as much of an interest in sex and fertility as there was in any other historical period. Here, however, it makes for one very boring book. Certainly, there are moments when...
...hollow of Gary, the silence hangs like a thick fog. "Used to be early in the morning, I would be real busy, men stopping in to get their lunch," said Constance Stepney, a cashier at the Bantam combination grocery store and gas station. "Now it's a real ghost town. You don't see no trains. You don't see the men coming in and going to work 'cause nobody's working...
...lengthy journey begins with the agonies of death ("Volcanic lips give fire, wells bubble. Bone lies like rubble upon the wound"). Surviving this fiery purgation is the ka (diminished soul) of an Egyptian named Menenhetet II. After experiencing the mummification of his discarded body, this ghost meets the kindred spirit of his great-grandfather Menenhetet I. The old ghost agrees to guide his descendant out of the necropolis at Memphi, a task that begins with a lesson in the creation of the Egyptian deities. Toward the end of this recitation, the young shade's attention drifts into the eddy...
...characters; Brutus's wife Portia (Crystal Miller) is tiny, delicate-looking, with a voice of steel, while the more ineffectual Calpurnia (Melinda McCrary) has a habit of turning back and forth to the various characters on stage, as if entreating them to listen to her. And when Caesar's ghost walks across the stage to warn Brutus of impending doom--an effect which, like the ghost scene in Hamlet, tends to inspire the most ridiculous devices imaginable from directors afraid of seeming naive--Cameron-Webb manages to achieve total straightforwardness. A panel of the Capitol slides up, revealing a blue...