Word: ghosts
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Philosopher's Stone, as the book is known in Britain, was published there four years ago.) The big-screen adaptation is a film of such eye-popping grandeur, dazzling special effects and sumptuous production values that you may not notice right away that supporting characters like Peeves, a troublesome ghost, and Piers, a troublesome boy, have been given the heave...
...naked stabs at developing this idea—a young pianist remarks to Ed that she doesn’t mind errors at a recital if they go unobserved; Ed, eager to quit barbering and join the human race, even goes so far as to describe himself as a ghost, watching other people “struggling down below...
...Each of the "acts" followed this reading-discussion pattern. After Tom Hart came James Romberger and Marguerite Van Cook, who collaborate on a sci-fi/urban nightmare series called "Ground Zero." Following them Megan Kelso ("Queen of the Black Black"), resembling the dark-haired Enid from Dan Clowes' "Ghost World," read from her up-coming graphic novel "Artichoke Tales." Lastly, the headliner, Charles Burns, whose work has appeared since the early 1980s, took the stage. A master of the color black (his pages are more ink than paper) Burns specializes in creepy stories filled with disease, freaks and teenagers. Reading...
Oftentimes you don’t even know you’re afflicted—that is, until one unremarkable day when the blue-and-white Ghost of Napster Past grins at you from his spot next to the innocuous Printer icon. By then, of course, it is too late...
...roadside kiosks were teeming with fresh pomegranates, for which Kandahar is famous. But there were few people. Bombing has been heavy here, forcing residents to either hole up or flee. The large middle-class neighborhood where Omar had his residence and headquarters looked and felt like a ghost town. The streets were empty. All the houses were locked, some with metal chains. "Anybody who can afford to is leaving," said an attendant at a roadside food kiosk. "The people you find here are have-nots or those who still feel it necessary to look after their business in Kandahar...