Word: headlessness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...wired up with batteries. In short, Tickle Me Elmo designer Mark Johnson-Williams was exactly the sort of guy the FBI was looking for in the Unabomber case. Johnson-Williams says the Federal agents looking for the Unabomber investigated him for six months. "I was always sending batteries and headless dolls in the mail. I think that's what caught their attention." No word on whether agents confiscated any of the popular Sesame Street dolls during their probe...
...Steven Spielberg, among others, for the rights, and the book will be published in time for Christmas. Orson Welles, who studied at the Art Institute of Chicago, wrote and illustrated the story using India ink, ballpoint, gouache, watercolor and typewriter, and included such cinematic scenes as Saint Tropez's headless body drifting onto the shores of the city. "I've seen a lot of fetes, fiestas and festivals, every sort and variety of saints-day high-jinks all over the world," he wrote, "but never anything to equal the 'Bravades' of St. Tropez...
Adams House's dimly-lit tunnels with obscure wall scrawlings and odd murals may regularly spook visitors. But yesterday the tunnels were transformed into something truly out of the ordinary: a haunted house replete with green monsters, headless ghosts, cobwebs and body-shaking shrieks of fear...
...headless ghost was the invention of Adams House's David S. Abrams '98, who had been planning the costume for quite some time...
...handed out to visitors in Prime Minister Mokdad Sifi's office is gruesome testimony of civil war: 32 pages of glossy color snapshots from Algeria's morgues. Severed heads appear on most pages, eyes open, frozen in a terrified stare. Pools of blood fill the stumps of necks on headless torsos. The bodies of children caught in a bombing have been charred to cinders. The only discernible feature on a decayed corpse is the diagonal throat slash from right ear through to the spinal column-the ghoulish trademarks that every Algerian recognizes as the signature of the guerrillas who sprang...