Word: ghosting
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...kids got the chance to face paint, tell ghost stories and go on scary rides at the party," said Edy Y. Kim '97, one of the event's organizers. "It was a little makeshift, but the kids seemd to like it, and when it comes right down to it, they were most excited about getting a lot of candy...
...stop working. When I stop working, I hurt. My head, my back, my legs hurt. I get dizzy. I can't stop." However, in speaking as her younger alterego, Kingston acquired an oft-frustrated voice, touched with a confused innocence: "I don't want to hear Wino Ghosts and Hobo Ghosts. I've found some places in this country that are ghost-free. And I think I belong there, where I don't catch colds or use my hospitalization insurance. Here I'm sick so often, I can barely work. I can't help it, Mama." By reading out-loud...
...disappearance before your eyes. Some primitives have believed that every photograph taken of a man peels off a layer of his soul. If that were so, nothing would be left of John Kennedy Jr. without his mother's trick of metaphysically absenting herself from the frame--a way of ghost dancing with both gawkers and the jackals of the press...
...Most probably you did not do as well in your first round of sections as you would have liked. Your TF did not love your final paper as much as you did. You missed an ID on the final. An "A" slipped out of your grasp like a vanishing ghost. You now realize that when it comes to sections, essentially you are positioned on the B+/A- fence. Wave hello to the rest of your class--they are sitting there with...
...summer colors or basic Beckett black. Inside, they toted books by or about the master. When the curtain rose, their attention was votive; they laughed and sighed and never dared cough. The dangling melodramatic ending of one play elicited a collective gasp, like that of a child hearing a ghost story's tantalizing punch line. At the curtain calls their faces beamed at the actors with rapture and gratitude. In the lobby afterward they bought T shirts reading GATE THEATRE--BECKETT FESTIVAL...