Word: tricking
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...time, so glistening hypodermics and needle-tracked arms were prominently featured, along with short biographies of celebrities who had died of overdoses. Although the effect of such films on children today has probably been greatly diffused by constant exposure to drugs in all forms, it did the trick in '72. We felt nauseated and afraid. That year, everyone began checking their Halloween candy for needle-puncture marks...
Nevertheless, for weeks before this Halloween, parents groups mobilized either to ban the holiday altogether, or arrange substitute activities for disappointed lots. Aldermen and city councils all over the country debated their right to call a halt to trick-or-treating P. T. A. task forces patrolled neighborhood stores to watch for product contaminations. Local hospitals offered to X-ray the loot...
...Murphy hopes that the section of short critical reviews and commentary in the upcoming November issue will do the trick. "Fiction and poetry are timeless, detached, marginal," she explains. "The more the magazine focuses only on that, the more it risks becoming marginal itself." Additional interviews, longer criticism, and perhaps a community calendar listing arts events might also give what another editor calls "a sense of the editorial board as having a personality beyond just...
Calling the campaign's three issues "job, job and jobs," Blanchard seems assured of a new job for himself come January. And that is the way it undoubtedly should be. The economic emergency in Michigan prevents any "let-business-do-the-trick" Reaganomic shilly-shallying. But it is a shame that a 300-watt diverted attention away from economic issues. James Blanchard has enjoyed a cakewalk, instead of a race to the wire, which might have transformed him from a Democratic idealist into a much-needed leader...
...Cambridge, the city council last week approved a resolution urging parents to closely supervise all trick-or-treaters...