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Not yet Halloween, but Party World is already selling fantasy Once upon a time, trick or treating was a simple affair. Your mom cut eye-holes into a sheet, threw it over your head and, voila, you were a ghost! Or you would go to Woolworth or K-Mart, buy some cheesy Zorro mask, or a Groucho Marx eyeglass-and-nose appliance, and wow ‘em sufficiently that they’d throw tons of candy into your huge Steinberg brown paper bag. That was then, this is now.
Halloween shopping starts a lot earlier, which is one reason the ancient Druid festival has become THE biggest money-grab of the year, bigger even than the historic granddaddy of money-grabs, Christmas. And it has become SO high-tech and commercial, with neighbours outdoing one e u another to lay claim to s iss m b l i n g i h t In the best haunted house y n ga o and s c e k t and teens seeking to ta m ou Sol ws r fil e o r h r o dress up as the hottest, yn c nts ot h a h l Car p s g ct sexiest or most audire rizin e e t e v n i id courant celebrity Ste on w t Gu n s e p ti Ev characters on TV or bigPro een w o l l screen. Ha
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