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Article: Looking Mean And/Or Green For Halloween
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- The Washington Post
- Article date:
- October 23, 1987
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WHEN I was a kid, my family didn't acknowledge Halloween. We
jumped ship and went to dinner and a movie while the neighborhood
filled up with witches, ghosts and goblins. Consequently, we never
had to worry about decorations. Others did that for us, and we
usually spent the Feast of All Saints washing windows.
Maybe that's why the generation that I produced ranks Halloween
right up there with Christmas and birthdays.
Dressing up as your own worst nightmare, begging candy from
adults you know would rather vaporize you than give you a Mars bar is
cathartic enough. But add to that parents with an annual,
uncontrollable mania for the macabre and you have a case worthy of a
Bettelheim study.
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