Word: hauntedness
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An indication of this frayed fabric is that the small parks at 500 Franklin St. and on Green Street behind 1000 Mass Ave. are haunted by alcoholics and drug abusers. Some of these men occasionally make threatening gestures toward passers-by.
Fernando Collor de Mello won the Brazilian presidency in 1989 by reaching out to the descamisados, the country's shirtless poor. Now Brazilians by the thousands are putting on shirts -- black ones -- to demonstrate their disgust with a Collor regime that is haunted by scandal and economic failure. An inflation...
Peeping out everywhere is Franz Kafka's haunted, haunting face. Kafka is a poster and T-shirt industry. Shining out from the Central European confectionery window frames and snowflake Bohemian crystal: the consumptive's black, intelligent eyes. He is Prague's presiding household god, part of the city's neurotic...
Katz conceived his book as a "saga of the sort usually found in novels," and that is what he delivers brilliantly. In a morbidly fascinating chapter for each year from 1945 to 1990, the Gordon daughters and son wander into every haunted house they catch a glimpse of.
Stephen King returns from the crypt with GERALD'S GAME (Viking; $23.50) his 27th novel. The game begins on an average day in an airy summer house in Maine. Jessie Burlingame agrees to let her husband Gerald try a little bedtime bondage, but somewhere along the line he gets nasty...