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...bump into at a bridge party, a church service, a Rotary Club meeting. They are not the kind of people likely to show up for, say, a seance. Yet, on Oct. 31, the night souls of the dead are said to roam the earth, that is just where a visitor found the chairman of Lawrence University's psychology department, the president of a local construction company, the CEO of a large paper company, the executive director of the county's Outagamie Museum, the city's director of planning and development and about 200 of their friends, neighbors...
...Burkitt's lymphoma, which afflicts black African children and is strongly associated with infection by the Epstein-Barr virus. Even though the stricken family is white, says the Georgia victim, "it was the only viral- caused cancer that we could find. Because of that and because of where our visitor came from, we started making the connection...
Submitted for your approval...Eleven American Literary Tricks and Treats, sure to see you safely through from midnight to dawn. So throw open the curtains to the pitching wind, shut the door tight to any curious visitor, and tuck that cover up firmly about your neck. And no caffeine allowed, in this Halloween challenge. It'll only make your hands shake and tremble all the more...and in the end such stimulants simply won't be needed...
...left them bereft and unfriended under a smouldering sky." Dalgliesh's assistant, Inspector Kate Miskin, provides a counterpoint to the Tory values exemplified by most of the characters on both sides of the law. Miskin has risen from a council-flat childhood to an imitation of chic affluence. A visitor to her sterile, modern apartment notes it is in "dull, orthodox, ghastly, conventional good taste." Like a Renaissance painter, James mischievously slips in a small, sharp portrait of herself as a "buxom grandmother, noted for her detective stories, who gazed mournfully at the camera as if deploring either the bloodiness...
...When a spaceship crashes through the roof of the Tanners' garage, out pops a wisecracking alien, who promptly moves in with the family. The Tanners accept this turn of events with amazing matter-of-factness, but ALF is no place to look for plausibility -- or charm. The outer-space visitor looks like an Ewok from the wrong side of the tracks and talks like Charlie the Tuna. In no time he is barging into the bathroom, hogging the stereo headset and cranking out ancient one-liners ("Do you get Sesame Street where you live?" "No, and frankly...