Word: halloweening
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HANOVER, N.H.--I guess it's in the spirit of Halloween to say: They...
...fire. No one has bothered to knock it down or rebuild it. Its windows are shuttered with gray planks of wood, shingles are missing like jack-o'-lantern teeth, and its beams are scorched. It would be perfect as a haunted house for the local kids this Halloween, if any kid would care to go near it. But the house looks too forlorn for games and too forbidding. I don't even know if I should discuss it in terms of "is" or "was," since its very existence raises the question of whether a ruined house may still be called...
...reason Clinton comes to mind is that the structure is both what it is and what it no longer is. One watches the President these days as if he were a man wearing a Bill Clinton Halloween mask. The mask says: Save education, save Social Security, Kosovo, the Middle East. The man slumps in a chair in a corner of his house and wonders who is going to save him and if he is going to make it through another hour...
...everyone living in the house but the neighbors as well. The house that was once the pride of the village is suddenly the blight, and one wants it either flattened or restored to its former glory. If it merely continues to stand where it is, it creates a perpetual Halloween and haunts the whole town...
Gene Simmons, the bassist for Kiss, is kicking off the band's new tour with a Halloween-night concert...