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...ghost of Alan Greenspan even chipped in, maybe for the last time before November - housing starts plummeted 7.5 percent in July, way more than expected, and two other inflation measures fell similarly. Psychologically, investors have to be convinced now that Greenspan is on the sidelines - and that clears the way for an upbeat fall season...
...Bush, who caught flak in the primaries for threatening to raise the ghost of the GOP's religious right, tends these days to limit his Bible-thumping to the use of faith-based organizations to do some of the government's work for it. It's a fine line that has mostly kept him out of trouble. The high quotient of religion in Lieberman's stump act, meanwhile, has civil libertarians worrying about separation and Christian conservatives wondering if Lieberman, as a Jew, is getting a free ride where Baptists fear to tread...
...Stine. He didn't exactly disappear or, as a Goosebumps book might put it, Vanish without a trace! (It's hard to be invisible when there are more than 300 million copies of your books in print.) But he did all of a sudden turn pretty ectoplasmic, a ghost of best sellers past, bumping around in the publishing basement, listening to the patter of tiny feet as his millions of former readers rushed to buy the latest Harry Potter...
These recent, friendly ghosts are part of a new pop-cultural conception of the afterlife, heavily laced with therapy-speak and a certain bias toward the living. Today's deceased don't rattle chains or sit on clouds strumming harps. They work out issues, as in the ghostly psychoanalysis of Sixth Sense or Edward's Oprah-meets-Orpheus sessions. They meddle, like the counsel-giving mothers on Providence and Soul Food. They have one primary job: thinking about us. In the best seller Life on the Other Side by TV psychic Sylvia Browne (a talk-show and pay-per-view...
Guinness would search the globe for new accents and characters: Japanese (A Majority of One), Bedouin (Lawrence of Arabia), Russian (Doctor Zhivago), Indian (A Passage to India). His transparency made it easy for him to incarnate specters; he was Marley's Ghost in Scrooge and Obi-Wan Kenobi in Star Wars--the role that heaped on him the annoyance of multigenerational fame. But "the force" was not with Guinness; delicacy and subversive wit were...