Nov. 1, 2001
Arts & Entertainment
Page 19
from GHOST page 17
“She was more than a little
surprised to see that the chair
was empty.
“Some time later she sat on
the sofa in the den.
When she turned
her head she
could see straight
down the hallway
to the bedrooms
When someone
moves, there is a
slight rustling noise.
Well, she heard a door
open and the sound of
someone moving in the
hall. Thinking it was her
husband getting up she
turned to look. No one
was there.
“It happened again. The
rustling noise. The sound of
the turning door knob. Even
the loose boards creaked, in
dicating someone was in the
hall. But no one was there.
“This went on for a while un
til it got on her nerves. She ex
pected to see her husband and
seeing no one, she got up and
moved to another chair.
“Other things happened as
well. Even the chil
dren mentioned it,
though at the
time, no one re
ally gave it
much thought.
There were
sounds,
bumps and
shuffled
noises as if
k
someone
was moving
around the room.
If you were in the
house alone, you
did not feel by
yourself.
“But what hap
pened next was
something no one
would have ever
expected. It happened at night.
About 2:30 a.m. the mother was
rudely awakened by the sound of
her son crying. He said he had
seen a man standing in his bed
room. She tried to calm him
down. She didn’t want to tell
him he imagined it, that he had
just been dreaming. He was so
sure he had seen someone.
“So, she told him he had
probably seen the shadow of his
daddy when he passed by the
boy’s room. Although she knew
he walked by more than half an
hour ago. The child was satis
fied and went back to sleep.
“Less than 12 hours later, the
woman came home to find her
daughter standing in the drive
way in tears she was so scared.
‘There’s a man in there. I
passed him in the hall,’ she told
her mother. She had been talk
ing on the phone, when she
looked up to see a man wearing
a wide brim hat standing near
the bedroom door.
“The woman knew that no
body could have gotten into the
house. She walked in and stood
at the telephone where the
daughter had been. She looked
through the den, past the sofa
and down the hall. There
weren’t any shadows, no clothes
draped over a door or anything
that could have been misinter
preted as being a human being.
“The next day in the quiet of
the morning after everyone was
gone she stood washing her
dishes. She was now so used to
the feeling of a presense at her
shoulder that when she didn’t it
was very noticeable to her.
from CLASSIC FILMS
“Traffic” and “Crouching Tiger,
Hidden Dragon.” I even enjoy the
occasional blockbuster action
movie (“The Matrix” comes to
mind). All I’m saying is that there
are many more wonderful films out
there that were made decades ago.
You just have to be willing to try
something new.
So, branch out. Start with
“Casablanca,” which truly has
something for everyone. If crime
thrillers are your catch, rent “The
Maltese Falcon.” Suspense? Look
no further than Hitchcock’s “Rear
Window” or “North by North-
by Alyssa Martin
If the Elon campus could talk,
what fashion advice would it give
you? I can see the campus saying,
“Have I ever told you how
hot you’d look in a bricl;
dress?” or “Always green
is the way to be”. We
should take fashion advice
from anything seen as
beautiful and classy. So,
why not look harder at the
old structures on campus? The
classic Georgian style of
Alamance, with columns
and brick and a simple
steeple, will be beautiful
forever. Vintage clothing
gives off the same feeling
of timeless beauty. The Belk
library is almost two years
old, yet it matches well with
West Hall, the oldest build
ing on campus. Reminis
cent of buildings on the
Elon campus, new and old
clothes can match too. Sp
many students came here
because Elon has such a
beautiful campus.
Wouldn’t you want your wardrobe
a pei online
Look to the Elon campus for advice
Classic, vintage style is beautiful and timeless
left: sweater,
vintagevixen.com,
$22; pants, retro
dress.com, $55
to be that beautiful?
Vintage clothing can be
found on the Web to give
you that timeless look.
Shopping for vintage
clothes online is harder
than shopping for normal
clothes, but the searching
is worth it. Vintage
clothes are truly one-of-
a-kind. You might find 50
dresses from the ‘70s that
you love, and only a few
will be your size. It is a
great feeling to buy a
shirt when you know
there might only be a few
of them left out there, but it
is also frustrating when you find a
This formal gown was originally
$210 in the 1970s. Now it is only
$44 at www.vintagevixen.com.
great shirt and it isn’t your size. All
sale-rack shoppers should be used
to this feeling though.
My favorite vintage clothes
Web sites are www. vintage
vixen.com and www.rustyzipper
.com. They both have unique coats
and sweaters for men and women.
Also, WWW.rockstarrags.com has
a great selection of T-shirts for
sale. Finally, take a look at www.
retrodress .com, www.tias .com
and WWW.atticvintage.com for
large selections of vintage clothes.
As a tour guide for admissions,
I know the importance of college
campus preservation. Classic, old
architecture makes a campus beau
tiful just like vintage, timeless
clothing makes you beautiful.
Columnist note: I’d lilce to give
a shout out to another fabulous
A&E writer in the journalism
world, Jim Schlosser, a staff writer
for the News and Record. Just re
cently he mentioned Elon in an ar
ticle about the growing concern of
preserving old buildings on college
Slowly she turned in the
kitchen. The house was
incrediably still and quiet. Sud
denly all the events of the past
week came rushing back to her
and the reality of it made her
shudder.
“‘Oh my gosh!’ she whis
pered.
“She realized there had been
a ghost in her house.”
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west.” Romantic comedies? Try
Billy Wilder’s “The Apartment,”
which is in my opinion, the great
est romantic comedy ever. Chances
are that you’ll love what you see
and you’ll want more, so you’ll
move on to some other great direc
tors. You just need to take that first
step. What are you waiting for?
Next week look for the com
puter animated “Monsters, Inc.,”
one of my most anticipated films
of the season. If Pixar’s track
record is anything to go by, I
should have plenty of good things
to say.
campuses. He singled out Elon for
matching the architecture of the
old side of campus with the newer
one. It is amazing how the Moseley
Center, Koury Center and Belie Li
brary match so well with the other
buildings on campus, and he rec
ognized this well preserved beauty
on our campus.