Word: ouija
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...naked, hungry and like to dance, Ames, Iowa, is the place to be this Saturday, especially for Republicans. G.O.P. presidential candidates want your support in the quadrennial straw poll--a voting exercise with the precision and meaning of a Ouija board that has taken on life-or-death significance for some candidates. To entice lever pullers, campaigns have bought scores of tickets ($25 a head), hauled supporters across the state on fleets of free air-conditioned buses, and bedecked the faithful with hats, shirts and stickers. The afternoon promises to be a toe-tapping jamboree as attendees gorge themselves...
...VIEWPOINT, July 12], Lance Morrow has every right to think the thumpings of his prophetic kitchen table signify a victorious campaign by Hillary for the New York Senate seat. But it sounds as if he is hearing the same voices Hillary does when she talks to Eleanor Roosevelt. A Ouija board would be a more reliable source for prognostications, but make sure the board is on a table that has been bolted down. BRUCE L. WILLIAMSON Clifton Park...
...assistant to an itinerant street photographer. Depending on which story you believe, his nickname was either a smudged version of squeegee--one of his first jobs as a darkroom assistant involved wiping down prints as they came from the developing bath--or he gained it because, like a Ouija board, he could predict where the news would happen and get there first. For a while he played violin accompaniment in theaters that showed silent films. "I loved playing on the emotions of the audience as they watched," he once wrote--an interesting admission, since Fellig would eventually give...
BOSTON--What's the secret to bringing communities together? Ouija knows...
When the Chinatown group showed a game of ouija in their video, the teens' curiosity overcame any shyness and they joked with each other like close friends...