Word: ghosting
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Billy Lynch, a lovely, funny man (a hopeless, lifelong drunk), is dead in middle age. His funeral is just over, and his friends and family have gathered at a quiet bar in the Bronx to forgive his ghost and congratulate his widow. So Alice McDermott sets down at the outset of Charming Billy (Farrar, Straus & Giroux; 280 pages; $22), a rueful shrug of a novel whose strong, shrewd opening pages should be taught in college writing classes...
...mouth had, no nor mind, expressed What heart heard of, ghost guessed; It is the blight man was born...
...some--granting stock options to every last employee at Sunbeam Corp. Of course, we still have work to do. Managers of Oxford Health Plans padded their wallets by selling sleighfuls of stock this year, just before the price collapsed. That seems at odds with the giving spirit. O Ghost of Christmas Yet to Come, book some time with the HMO's execs...
Pats Sink Marino and Dolphins Another "next year" for Dan Marino: Jimmy Johnson's Dolphins flounder in Foxboro, fall to the Patriots. The callow Giants fumble one over to the Vikings. Denver exorcises the ghost of Jags past. And Tampa Bay muffles one co-MVP, Barry Sanders, for their first playoff win in 18 years. Next up for the Bucs: the other co-, Brett Farve. Full Coverage in CNN/SI
...They are Man's," the ghost replies. "And they cling to me, appealing from their fathers. This boy is Ignorance. This girl is Want. Beware them both, and all of their degree, but most of all beware this boy, for on his brow I see that written which is Doom unless the writing be erased...