Word: phantomed
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...Week, about a small town that tries to win federal disaster aid by faking an earthquake. Joe Dante's best work of the year was not his feature flop Explorers but a spooky segment for The Twilight Zone called The Shadow Man, about a boy who discovers a sinister phantom living under...
...draped just so and drawn at the proper angle to the light before the outline of the animal is even suggested. The effect is cunning, quixotic, magical, and knows no boundary in time. The cloth, in fact, dates only from the mid-20th century, but the tiger, fashioned from phantom stripes of fabric, was tie-dyed with supernal skill, millimeter by millimeter, by a craftsman whose techniques were passed down over 1,200 years. The lace of Chantilly seems, by comparison, fussy and overemphatic. That tiger prowls with the power...
...wedged in between Guisseppe Gelato and the Coffee Connection, celebrates its first birthday this month. Perhaps the location itself is a jinx: replacing a short-lived flavored popcorn emporium, Top Dog seldom appears to attract lines of customers any longer than the phantom queues of its defunct predecessor. Featuring hot dogs with a variety of toppings, chili dogs, and freshly baked french fries, the hot dog king caters to a mixed crowd, according to Estelle, the owner...
Kopit, a Signet Society alumnus himself, is currently writing a novel, a musical version of "The Phantom of The Opera," and the pilot show for a possible NBC miniseries about veterinary hospitals. The TV series would "look like Mass General, except the open heart surgery is done on gorillas," he said...
...California elected Ronald Reagan governor because it was afraid of what was happening to society; in 1974 it elected the Zen-reading Jerry Brown, because it had finally come to imagine the potential of leaders "who could put aside political expediency when their Phantom Captains had discerned the perfect solution to a problem...