Word: revenante
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"It's got to give me goose pimples," he says. His flesh crawls at odd moments. In Wind from the Sea Wyeth opens an upstairs window in Christina Olson's house in a room that has been closed for years, and the billowing of lace curtains lets in...
Ghosts are what history sends to remind the living that it is not done with us. This fall the shades of the 1980s have been lurking in the cobwebbed corners of America's pop culture: Michael Jackson, staring from his mug shot like a revenant; Ronald Reagan, whose culture wars...
Harvard Greek mythology guru Gregory Nagy, in his popular course on Homeric poetry, describes "the revenant"--the hero who returns from beyond the grave to accomplish his life-defining mission. Like Odysseus, the Ghostdad returns from the underworld to a greater understanding of the universe and, more importantly, to a...
The recent letter (November 19 and public presentation by Science for the People (SFTP) is the latest manifestation of their continuing campaign to illegitimize sociobiology by portraying it as a transparent attempt to justify social inequality and genocidal social practices as the inevitable consequence of genetic differences among groups. Characterizing...
Twenty First Century Communications (Weight Watchers, National Lampoon), which will publish the revenant Liberty, is counting on alumni loyalty to take up any advertising slack. "We can make it on single-issue sales alone," says Vice President George Agoglia, "if even half of the one million Liberty salesboys are still...