It is this haunting uncertainty that corrodes the remnants of Willy's sanity as his career, dreams and very self-image turn to dust before him.

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It is starting to have the same haunting effect as George Bush senior's famous cry of "read my lips, no new taxes", ahead of the 1988 US presidential election.

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"Luigi's Ghost Mansion: Haunting Hijinks" takes that idea and cleverly inverts it: The GamePad player becomes the pursuer a ghost trying to sneak up on Wii Remote players who carry ghost-detecting flashlights.

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The director of the play, Wayne McGregor, told the Today programme's Tom Bateman that he found the book "haunting" and explained that it made him think differently about the very meaning of consciousness.

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As it turns out, sometimes resisting temptation can be just as haunting as giving in to one's base instincts.

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Organizers say it is the tantalizing cocktail of testing one's limits and achieving the unattainable, helped by the haunting surroundings of the desert, which have shrouded the MDS with a veil of mystique over the years, making it appeal to all kinds of thrill seekers.

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It's still sound advice -- and in the intervening years, black authors have taken it, from Alex Haley's 1976 blockbuster, "Roots, " to Toni Morrison's haunting "Beloved" from 1987.

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