Word: ouija
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Political polls usually function as Ouija boards that campaigns and pundits can use to try to predict the outcome of an election. We're more interested in figuring out how voters make the decisions that lead to that outcome. Is it a gut reaction, an emotional response to a candidate who makes them feel proud or angry? Are voters more interested in character traits like leadership and sincerity or in policy positions that match their...
...this includes a Chamberlin). According to the website of their new label, Thrill Jockey, the lyrics were inspired by a combination of ads from the back of early seventies design magazines, the cultural pages of local alternative lifestyle newspapers, and the Baccalieri children’s use of a Ouija board in season four of the “Sopranos.” The music is meant to follow the lyrics’ lead: hence the thunder sounds when Eleanor is talk-singing about thunderstorms on “Ex-Guru,” and the monkey and cow noises...
...Georgia, racing the ghost (who drives a phantom pickup) south in search of the woman who sold it to him in the first place. There are quite a few artfully scary supernatural manifestations along the way - at various points the ghost takes control of the car radio, of a Ouija board, of other drivers, and even of the electronic voicebox of a stranger in a restaurant who's had a laryngectomy...
...year-old character, when taking a break from getting beaten up and riddling through confused if well-meaning lectures from his righteous Bay Area stepfather, works on his rock band, which exists only in his mind: "The Nancy Wheelers, [with] me on guitar, Sam Hellerman on bass and Ouija board, first album: Margaret? It's God. Please Shut...
...said he owed me a story," "He still hates me from that piece I wrote in '96," "I haven't seen him since Kyoto." - that were brought to the adjoining reception and then recounted and analyzed as part of the night's real entertainment: the Al Gore presidential run Ouija board. When people asked, "So, what do you think?" after this premiere, they weren't talking box office but Oval...