Word: poltergeist
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First of all, kids are reading them. And we all know what reading leads to...that's right, knowledge and an aptitude for the verbal section on standardized tests. Okay, maybe kids won't find the words poltergeist, Quidditch or transfiguration on the SATs anytime soon, but the Potter books have a larger vocabulary than most of the drivel that is published for children nowadays. Compare the Harry Potter series to the last fad in children's books, that formulaic series called Goosebumps, and you'll see what I mean...
That famous quote from Poltergeist applies to Harvard's defense, which was ghastly at the beginning of the season but now looks like a unit that can lead the team to an Ivy repeat...
...airwaves and cable wires already pulse with a dozen TV series on the otherworldly, from the light-headed NBC hit 3rd Rock from the Sun to the time-travel capering of Sliders on Fox, from Showtime's The Outer Limits and Poltergeist: The Legacy to the fact-based (or factoidal) Unsolved Mysteries and Sightings. Two of the series, The Sentinel on UPN and Fox's new Millennium, from The X-Files creator Chris Carter, are psychic cop shows. The media sky is darker with eerie phenomena than a UFOlogist's nightscape. As a serial killer whispers in the first episode...
This is the primal theme -- rying to bring the dead back to life- - that has preoccupied Casper's executive producer, Steven Spielberg, in E.T. and Poltergeist, Always and Jurassic Park. The new film is sprightly enough to conceal its subtext from censorious politicians. But children, who dwell in fear at least as much as in innocence, may get the message: that it would be cool, bitchin', totally awesome to join the Dead Kids Society...
...biathlete complained that "you can't even take a tea bag in without being checked." But the competitors could at least enjoy a taste of the high life: they dined every night under crystal chandeliers in a beautifully restored resort hotel, with a fully functioning casino next door and Poltergeist III screened on their behalf. Others, around the mountains, were put up in Club Meds...