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FULL MOON
October 28,1981
Inside Rap:
Type A and Type B, Which Are You?
ByTRACY ASBURY
Our first nine weeks have passed. By now many of us have estab
lished our school year behavior mode. Behavior by psychologists has
been broken down into two modes, type A and type B.
The type A behavior mode consists of the neat, well “prepped”, in
tellectually rigorous people in our society. They study almost con
stantly, usually, overwork themselves, and are the ones who keep
Sleep-Ez on the market. As students, they are the ones who are listed
in the upper portions of their classes, the Honor Society, and Who’s
Who (at least two out of three). They are not only intellectually well-
bred, but they are the elite and ethically well-bred. Though they have
their “social” habits, never do they care to stay under the conditions
of their folly — they only enjoy the affects. Some though may have
ruined lives by the age of twenty.
People in the type A mode are usually very confident people when
they are with their particular group or clique. Life in this behavior
mode is similar to a popularity contest. Although type A’s may be hap
py being a reflection of other people ^ring life, they sometimes wish
as J. Alfred Prufrock did, to change their lives without quite knowing
how — (T.S. Elliot Stuck, Mrs. Hathcock).
Type B’s have a similarity to “The Odd Couple’s” Oscar Madison.
Sure, type B’s groom and they study their lessons, but they don’t make
a religion of it. Few type B’s are on the Honor Rolls, or in the Honor So
cieties. Some of them are popular, and have their own cliques. How
ever, life to type B’s is too precious to waste worrying about what peo
ple say or feel about them. Because of this carefree attitude, type B’s
don’t have depression periods as is common of type A’s. B’s have
ethics and can be found to be well-bred people, but they just aren’t the
excessive people that type A’s are. When they “tie one on” they really
tie one on”. Type B’s rarely have the massive hangovers that type
A s have from guilt of “watching the far out moon”.
Type A and B are just labeled behavior tendencies. Many people
are just straight A or B. Some are a mixture of both. Few escape being
either (sounds like the Rutherford Gold Foil experiment, eh Mr. Bla
lock? ). Hopefully, if you are a staight A, you will try the carefree atti
tude of type B for a more comfortable life. If you are a type B person,
try tightnin’ up on type A’s method for success. Me, I guess I am a
strong mixture of both A and B types.
Oh! By the way, type A’s have tendencies to have high blood pres
sure, and heart attacks.
Halloween
In Mexico
By MARIA HERNANDEZ
On October 31 Halloween is
celebrated in the northern parts
of Mexico, especially in the
regions closest to the United
States. Although the holiday is
traditionally American, Northern
Mexican children have adopted it
as their own. The children
disguise themselves as skeletons,
monsters, or witches, and carry
pumpkins as baskets. They ask
for Halloween candy from door to
door, and when they do not
receive any treats, the children
play dirty tricks, such as smash
ing eggs at the door. The stores in
Northern Mexico have contests
for the best costumes and give
candy to all children who attend.
The title of the holiday in Mexico
is “Night of the Witches.”
Halloween is not celebrated in
many Mexican towns. Instead,
another holiday is celebrated on
the second of November. It is
called All Saints’ Day, or Day of
the Dead. On this special day peo
ple visit cemeteries to carry
flowers to the graves of deceased
friends and family members. On
this day florists sell many chry
santhemums and crowns with the
names of the deceased printed
upon them. The bakeries prepare
the traditional “bread of death”
and decorate the delicacy with
skeletons of sugar. Outside the
cemeteries canes are sold.
Everyone goes to church services
and all schools are closed.
THE FULL MOON
Albemarle Senior High School
Albemarle, N.C. 28001
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Review
Werewolves:
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By KELI FARLOW
David Naughton has made his first critical acclaim this fall with
the biggest special effects flick of the season. The movie is National
Lampoon’s “American Werewolf in London,” at a cost of a mere thir
teen million dollars. The three main characters are John, played by
Naughton, his best friend George, and the woman he falls very much
in love with, Elaine. One will find himself both amused and frightened
by this movie’s acute realism. Werewolves — just a myth?
The story opens with John and George hitchhiking their way
across Europe. So far they have walked all the way to a small cove in
England just outside London. As night falls John decides he wants to
sleep under shelter. Alas, they find a quiet pub where the people are
not too overly polite! The people of the Slaughtered Lamb Pub act
mysteriously, as if they are trying to hide something. Not able to un
derstand their strange actions, George asks the bar maid to explain
their secrecy. The people are totally appalled and they demand that
the foreigners leave at once. While the travelers are heading out the
door, a concerned man hesitantly suggests, “Stay on the path and
away from the moonlight.” Brave John and George shrug it off and go
out into the cold, dark night. A short while passes and no boogie man
appears. George stops suddenly and looks around. He notices with
great fervor that they are off the path and clearly in the moonlight.
Just as he looks at John, a bloodcurdling howl escapes the woods at a
short distance away. Slowly they turn to walk away. Suddenly, from
the thick woods comes the demon who has stalked them all night. The
wolf pounces on George and kills him instantly. John is so stunned that
he dumbfoundedly goes after the wolf and almost meets his own death.
However, at this precise time, a villager shoots and kills the wolf.
Three weeks later John awakens in the Memorial Hospital of Lon
don. He has been experiencing confusing dreams of ravenous people
and animals. While in the hospital he is visited by an old friend,
George, the supposedly dead pal. George brings shocking and unbe
lievable news, declaring, “John, I am here. I am alive. You must be
lieve this. We were attacked by a werewolf. I was killed, so this makes
me a “living dead,” better known as a zombie. You were only hurt. Do
you know what that makes you? A werewolf!” John is terribly upset
and confides in his lover/nurse, Elaine. She assures him that he had
experienced another strange dream. Unfortunately, he believes
Elaine and shrugs off visions of George.
John is released from hospital care one week later, the night of a
full moon. While Elaine is at work, an incredible transformation of a
man to a werewolf takes place. Later that night the “altered” John
kills four people.
Suddenly, John awakens without knowing where he is nor why he
is there. He finds himself in the wolves’ cage at a zoo. Oddly enough,
the wolves do not attack him. Meanwhile, Elaine has been informed
that John really is a werewolf and that it is her duty to get him to a hos
pital.
As the patient and nurse travel to Memorial Hospital, the radio
station airs a news flash telling of the four recently mutilated people.
John becomes aware of his changed identity and escapes hospitaliza
tion. The only way to end this nightmare is to kill himself. A sudden en
ding leaves one drained!
If you are into special effect flicks or realistic transformations, go
see “An American Werewolf in London.” Oh yeah, stay out of the
moonlight and on the path!!
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