Word: ghosting
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...area's snow and cold have also enhanced local folklore. Young recounts the story of Emily Pickman, whose ghost reportedly still roams the Yard...
...however, a thicket of more ordinary particles has concealed them from view. But the top may not elude discovery much longer. In late October, researchers at Fermilab's Collider Detector found a provocative set of tracks hinting that a top may have briefly materialized, then vanished like a Halloween ghost. The tantalizing event was reported at a conference held at the facility in mid-November. Since then, physicists have talked of little else...
...Sullivan's version, the man mistaken for an inspector is actually a computer wonk turned would-be actor. Aggressively talentless, he is nonetheless welcomed into the panicky troupe and cast as the Ghost of Christmas Yet to Come. The play's finale, a catastrophic Christmas Carol that is the funniest scene on any American stage this year, echoes the uproarious mangling of Romeo and Juliet in Nicholas Nickleby. Props and gimmicks fail. The set collapses. One actor forgets all his lines in terror. And Tiny Tim, played all through rehearsals by a plump pubescent brat who has held the role...
...Ghost of Christmas Past, a delightful angel (Maureen Silliman), transports Scrooge back to his childhood. Back then, we learn, the penile protagonist partook of Christmas in the spirit of most Christian children--perhaps Marley's ghosts can revive some of Scrooge's youthful cheer...
Marley sends in the big guns with the Ghost of Christmas Future, a two-story high beast that breathes fire and brimstone. He brings Scrooge to a time after his death. Scrooge witnesses how his relatives celebrate his demise. Maureen Silliman plays a second memorable role as Cynthia the silly sister, raucously gallivanting around the stage. This helps Scrooge, someone once "solitary as an oyster [so that] no warmth could warm him," realize that even his family hates him, that this is bad, and that he should reform--and quickly...