Word: ghosts
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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Tueday was the night the ghosts died in the Bush White House. There was the ghost of his last campaign, which Bush lost among voters but won in the court. There was the ghost of his father's last campaign, when even winning a war was not enough to earn a second term. And then there was the ghost of Tuesday afternoon, when the entire Bush campaign team was haunted by the possibility that they had got it all wrong, as the first exit polls came in and nothing, but nothing, was going their...
...want to bury a ghost, you have to dig a very deep hole. And the Sox had dug themselves a doozy: down three games to none against the pin-striped demons of New York, Boston trailed, 4-3, as the team headed into the bottom of the ninth inning of what could have been the final game of the American League Championship Series (ALCS), three outs from another despairing winter...
...response to these ubiquitous concerns, what else could be expected but a brightly-clad, crazy-haired genie, the ghost of Christmas past—I mean, of American history—popping out of the floor and supervising a musical adventure starring key figures in American history...
...more, well, cunning in the past six years. Like The Hours, Specimen Days is a fugue in three parts: it consists of three stories, each set in a different historical period--the Industrial Revolution, the 1920s and the far future. And each is told in a different style: ghost story, hard-boiled mystery and science fiction. You read that right. The third section will be set in New York City in the 22nd century, by which time the Big Apple will be dealing with a massive influx of refugees from another planet. What binds the three stories together is that...
...first two bars to tap a legal keg after Prohibition ended. But if you have time to leave the business district, head up to West Randolph's up-and-coming restaurant row to see how Gen X yuppies indulge themselves. You will also find them at the spacey Ghost Bar upstairs from Nine, Michael Morton and Scott DeGraff's new restaurant. On the far end of West Randolph, visit the Tasting Room, a four-year-old wine shop and warehouse bar. From the second floor, you can take in the entire skyline (and a glass of any of 110 wines...