Word: halloweening
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...those of us who don't yet have too many wedding anniversaries or funerals to commemorate the demarcations of our own personal histories, holidays offer a rare opportunity for adding a dramatic subtext to the calendar. At Halloween, for example, we sneak about, looking up at the stars, comparing preteen trick or treating expeditions with our current pranks...
...ever noticed how many zillions of student organizations there are here at Harvard? Don't let that intimidate you--there's always room for a few more. Let's say that you and a few friends really want to see, oh, for example, A Nightmare on Elm Street on Halloween. On the big screen. For free. The answer: start your own film society! It's fun, it's cool, and it sounds intellectual and artsy. (Hey, three guys in Lowell House did it.) If that doesn't work, start a coup and force Your own (already-functioning) House Film Society...
Maybe it's just that the ever expanding Halloween season has begun to slop over into Christmas. In recent Christmases, "more people are costuming" in season-appropriate wearables, according to Phil Wiseman of Maritz Marketing Research Inc., who does an annual survey of holiday buying habits. Of course, the same can be said of Halloween. Once an occasion when children were sent out to practice the fine art of extortion on the neighbors, Halloween is fast becoming an excuse for adults in feathered masks and body paint to indulge in public foreplay. Already costumes are almost de rigueur, replacing even...
...dreams that Scream is now enabling. His fisherman father was the visual model for the killer in Last Summer. Mrs. Tingle will be his directorial debut. His struggling L.A. young-adulthood informs his in-development twentynothing TV drama Wasteland. The kid who once sat through six straight showings of Halloween recently met Jamie Lee Curtis for drinks at the Polo Lounge to swap ideas for Halloween 7, for which he wrote "a quick treatment as a favor to Harvey...
...huge hard disks found on late-model PC's get just as cluttered as the area under the tiny bed in your dorm room. Sure, that Halloween screen saver was great in October, but now it's just taking up space on your system...