Word: ghosted
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...slim, with huge, dramatic sleeves or swaths of material around the shoulders or waist. Jackie wouldn't wear one of these, and Audrey would be overwhelmed in one, but it is easy to imagine Joan Crawford or Bette Davis stalking an errant lover using the costume as a weapon. Ghost, designed by Tanya Sarne -- who is also English -- was back in the black-and-white era too: waterfall dresses, flowing crepe trousers and handsome bias-cut skirts...
Harvard Yard, the oldest part of the campus,has a series of ghost stories connected with it.Jay W. Glaubach '97 documented one story aboutHolden Chapel for a Folk and Myth project.According to Glaubach, Holden Chapel used to bethe dissecting room for the medical school. Onsome dark nights, the chapel is haunted by thefiancee of a man whose body was snatched from hisgrave to be dissected by Harvard Med Schoolstudents...
Bill Clinton's strategy is to be the President and let the Republicans shake their rattles and do their ghost dance. He can pick his battles, win a few, earn some good defeats. He can get in high dudgeon about mean-spiritedness, and when the Republicans get feverish and clammy and speak in tongues and handle snakes, he can go out to Omaha and Houston and Nashville and be charming and graceful...
Mendelsohn speaks of science in terms of social responsibility. True, he seems more interested in teaching these days than in haunting anyone. Thirty-three years after his run-in with the Herald reporter, though, one can still see the outline of Ross Barret's ghost in the polished figure of Everett Mendelsohn...
...government claimed that the offensive successfully reasserted its authority throughout the region. Indeed, in Guadalupe Tepeyac, where the Zapatista leader who calls himself Subcomandante Marcos made his headquarters most of last year, a garrison of 20 soldiers did seem to be in command--but in command of a ghost town. Elsewhere too, Zapatistas were neither fighting nor giving up but melting away into the jungle, sometimes with families in tow. As a car carrying two journalists approached the village of Oventik, 20 men who had been hoeing at the ground ran into their huts, grabbed clothes, firewood and babies...