Word: halloween
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...When you open the door and hear them shout, 'Tricks or treats,' " he said at a rally on Halloween, "remember they are describing the Republican tax plan-treats for the very wealthy and the big corporations, and tricks for everyone else." Even if it had not been the most edifying of campaigns, the two candidates seemed determined to go out in Style...
Southern Californians cherish a style unlike anything elsewhere. One Hollywood hostess, Stacey Winkler, 36, wife of Henry ("the Fonz") Winkler, is noted for her elaborate invitations. She summoned guests to a Halloween party, for example, by writing messages on the sides of pumpkins, wrapping the pumpkins in ribbons, and having them delivered by a chauffeur in a ghost costume. She was dismayed, on the other hand, when a hired bartender arrived in a tuxedo; she immediately sent him home to change into Bermuda shorts. "No one who knows us," she says proudly, "would wear...
...whistle on the worst excesses of the Senate President, Atkins buddy and legislative strongman William F. Bulger (D-Boston). For instance, Atkins, who a chairman of the Ways and Means committee is the second-ranking Democrat in the Senate, did nothing to stop legislators who granted themselves a "Halloween. Night pay raise" two years ago without floor debate or recorded vote. Atkins claimed he opposed the pay raise amendment while it was in Ways and Means and that he "took a walk" while legislators held a voice vote on the raise late in a session that ran well toward sunrise...
...last marathon runner we watched emerge from the tunnel into the Coliseum was a Haitian with a lovely, euphonious name, Dieudonne Lamothe. He ran his last lap stolidly, engulfed by applause, and when he crossed the finish line he was the 78th runner to do so. The orange Halloween-hat traffic cones used to guide Lamothe and his swifter brethren onto the track from the tunnel were picked up; the tunnel was blocked off so that such scheduled rituals as the awarding of the final medals, the reintroduction of the athletes, the arrival of a spaceship, the performance...
...what people like Lisa and Terry Ford of Jonesboro, 17 miles south of Atlanta, are buying. When they were high school students, the couple hung out at the local Sears mall because it was the best place in town to have fun and meet people. As teenagers, they bought Halloween costumes at Sears. By the age of 16 they were going through the store and pointing to things that they would some day have in their home. Married five years ago at 18rthey outfitted their new two-bedroom house at Sears. Lisa got a Kenmore washer and dryer as birthday...