Word: wraith
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...finished writing the last paragraph, a sensation like poisoned gas began to wraith around inside my chest--a sick green glow, the lightly radioactive foretaste of something awful. Then a vise beneath my breastbone tightened...and tightened...and tightened, a slow-motion black implosion of the body's core. I had a heart attack. Quite a surprise...
Thus began the irresistible rise of Gwyneth Paltrow. At 23, the eldest child of Danner and TV producer Bruce Paltrow (The White Shadow, St. Elsewhere) has two blossoming careers: on screen, as the most beguiling actress of her young generation; and in the tabloids, as that cheerfully ravishing wraith on the arm of Hollywood dream supreme Brad Pitt...
...paid beaucoup dues, working the Manhattan folk scene for more than a decade, in between gigs singing jingles and touring in Pump Boys and Dinettes. With Fat City she needn't worry about paying the rent. Its 11 songs are strong, tuneful, as hard to shake off as a wraith's visitation or a first love...
...wraith is walking down every American street, knocking on every American door, six months after Halloween, 13 years after Vietnam. Nicaraguan president Daniel Ortega is putting a spook into every American home. Ronald Reagan is letting...
...manner is so much the grasping fraud that the audience is stunned when she delivers the goods. Indeed, she is stunned herself: there are few funnier sights than Page striding across the stage in pursuit of a ghost whose presence she senses but cannot see, snuffling at the wraith's ectoplasm like a spaniel who just knows a squirrel is somewhere nearby...