Word: halloweening
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...nutmeg and a hot oven. Except that the mist comes from dry ice stuck in a grinning skull, the whisper in the trees from nylon ghosts hung in the boughs, and the pumpkin, made of bilious orange plastic, has a gizmo inside that groans "Whoooooooo ..." as you walk past. Halloween is upon us again...
...greeting-card printers or the manufacturers - somewhere in Guangdong Province, China, I guess - who turn out all those disgusting plastic decorations that are beginning to disfigure suburbia and who, together, have turned an innocent night of excitement for children into something run by and for adults. Those in the Halloween industry are simply behaving as good capitalists should, following the maxim of that great economist P.T. Barnum that a sucker is born every minute, satisfying a market they have themselves created. Halloween Express, a Kentucky-based chain, now has some 70 franchised stores in 21 states. Americans will spend about...
...APPROVED. THE ROCKY HORROR PICTURE SHOW, for viewing, nearly 30 years after its U.S. debut; in Singapore. Censors had banned the camp 1975 cult film, a musical spoof with Tim Curry starring as a transvestite space alien, but cleared it for screening at an outdoor Halloween event, the Straits Times reported. An organizer of the showing told the newspaper that censors had objected to the movie's depiction of "kinky sexual practices...
...hottest menswear sellers are Oona’s extensive Western ($15+), Hawaiian ($12+) and bowling shirt collections. Oona’s also offers “costume consulting” for those in search of the perfect Halloween statement...
Herschbach, whose voice will make a cameo appearance as a Nobel presenter on the Halloween episode of “The Simpsons,” drew a comparison between Harvard’s current Nobel drought and baseball...