Word: humors
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Franny Loses a Fight," in The Hotel New Hampshire, John Irving. All Hallow's Eve, Irving-style. Giant spikers. Heart attacks. Tortured children. A tragic rape. But there's the usual dose of good humor here, and Irving's spirit shines through bigger than the State o' Maine itself. This is Halloween candy to sink your wisdom teeth into, the Snickers bar in the bag of Golden Delicious apples...
...have a strange sense of humor," admits Debra Floyd, the store's book buyer. Floyd has stocked the store well with a wide variety of books on the occult from facsimilies of ancient manuscripts to recipe books for herbal potions...
Despite their strange sense of humor, the staff of Arsenic and Old Lace are serious about their beliefs. "Wicca is a religion, a philosophy, and a way of life," says Floyd who is also a practicing mystic. But the widespread stereotype of witches as the evil, magic hags of legends and fairy tales is in no way related to modern reality, she is quick...
Poonies beware! There's a new humor magazine on the block, called Snit, which is trying take the Harvard laughs market away from the Lampoon...
Poonies may not have much to worry about, however, since Snit's initial request for funding from the Office of the Arts was rejected because "the quality of the humor was judged to be not artistically...up to par [and] did not merit a grant," said Cathy D. McCormick, who works at the Office...