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...movie's few flirtations with the Halloween genre are handled economically and gracefully--the psychiatrist/investigator, the macho-hero-in-pursuit, the hardboiled reporter, and the renegade cop all have their moment as they rotate around the central character. There's even a brief humorous romance for Daughter Number Two, and Shelley Hack, ex-Charlie's Angel, makes a successful shift from feathered hair and bellbottoms to mid-urban motherhood...

Author: By John P. Thompson, | Title: SCREEN | 2/26/1987 | See Source »

...60th anniversary of his death, the ghost of Harry Houdini, master escapologist, prestidigitator and Appleton's most celebrated son. While Monroe writhed and jerked, it must be noted, a block away the sign outside the Valley Bank effortlessly blinked out the message: WELCOME HOME HARRY HOUDINI HAPPY HALLOWEEN...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In Wisconsin: a Magic Spirit | 12/1/1986 | See Source »

...started practicing Houdini-inspired handcuff escapes. "Like when he was handcuffed and got into a box and was thrown over the side of a bridge into a river. How did he get out? He was just an amazing person. Anyone who is a magician and dies on Halloween has got to be amazing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In Wisconsin: a Magic Spirit | 12/1/1986 | See Source »

...specter raised by the proponents of U.S.English of a United States in which a large minority of people are totally unable to function in English, thereby constituting a separate political and social force, is no more real than ghosts stalking the halls on Halloween...

Author: By Catherine E. Snow, | Title: Bilingual Classes | 11/22/1986 | See Source »

...racial slur was painted on the steps of Smith College a week after the World Series. Rumors floated that a white student in a Ku Klux Klan outfit at a Halloween party won a prize for the costume. Black women complained of stepped up harassment...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: World Series Touches Off Racial Clashes | 11/15/1986 | See Source »

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