Word: ghosts
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Here's a play that needs no�introduction. Or, rather, shouldn't have one, because to say too much could spoil the frisson of Conor McPherson's odd, unsettling drama with supernatural overtones. In contemporary Dublin, a man (Oliver Platt) who thinks he has seen the ghost of his dead wife seeks the help of a therapist (Br�an F. O'Byrne) who has his own problems. In a series of simple, two-character scenes, we learn more about the sadly self-involved lives of each, before McPherson abruptly sends us out into the night, gasping...
...editors: Re: “One Week Later,” comment, April 28: Why the big fuss? Kaavya Viswanathan’s plagiarism was no more than a case of standard ghost writing, the legitimacy of which has been so perfectly “internalized” by the “intelligentsia” in the country of her origin. It is not at all rare in India for parents to do school work of their children. When the project is found to be beyond their caliber, they resort to engaging professionals for the purpose, and any number...
...We’ve also had a noise complaint.” By now there were three HUPD officers on the scene. Recognizing that he had a captive audience, Rennell paused to consider the statement before delivering his deadpan reply: “Do you guys have any good ghost stories...
...left Northampton for the bright lights of London with his uptight girlfriend when he is brought back home to take over the family shoe factory after his father’s unexpected death—cue the pressure to live up to the expectations of dad’s ghost. As the business sinks into financial problems, Price unexpectedly meets Lola and soon is inspired to make sexy boots with heels that won’t break under the weight of the man. Thus a truly odd couple attempts to save Price & Sons, and it?...
...buried. A prominent Rome lawyer who has represented the family of Bernardo Provenzano, the boss of bosses of Sicily?s Cosa Nostra, told an Italian newspaper that he believed the Mafia chief had died several years ago. Other Mob leaders, attorney Salvatore Traina claimed, were using Provenzano?s "ghost" to distract authorities and cover their own tracks. That storyline, like dozens of others that have circulated for decades around Italy?s Most Wanted mob boss, appears to have evaporated on Tuesday with word that the 73-year-old boss was arrested on the outskirts of his hometown of Corleone...