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TRICK OR ... EEK! IS THAT REALLY MARTHA STEWART DOING HALLOWEEN SHTICK? HOW SCARY!


Byline: - Rob Lowman

Trick or treat - Martha style. No throwing rotten eggs, please. Perhaps wickedly spiced deviled ones instead.

Yes, the woman who tells you how to decorate your home, gives you gardening tips, offers suggestions on how to throw an elegant party or wedding is now going to help you get scary. Is that a frightening thought or what?

Just in time for Labor Day Labor Day, holiday celebrated in the United States and Canada on the first Monday in September to honor the laborer. It was inaugurated by the Knights of Labor in 1882 and made a national holiday by the U.S. Congress in 1894. , comes Martha Stewart <noinclude></noinclude>

Martha Stewart (born Martha Helen Kostyra on August 3, 1941) is an American business magnate, author, editor and homemaking advocate. She is also a former stockbroker and fashion model.
 Holiday Halloween issue on newsstands followed the next day (Sept. 5) by ``Martha Stewart Living Martha Stewart Living is a magazine and a television show featuring entertaining and home decorating guru Martha Stewart. Both the magazine and the television program focus on the domestic arts. : Spooky Scary Sounds for Halloween'' CD from Rhino Records. And guess whose photograph graces both?

No, that isn't Anne Rice - that's a rather ghoulish-looking Martha on the magazine cover, and inside she gives you how-to instructions on how to look as scary as she does (don't confuse this with makeup tips for the rest of the year unless you're a Goth).

The magazine also has articles on no-sew costumes, pumpkin carving 101, Halloween recipes, other makeup tips and a short story by frightmeister Dean Koontz Dean Ray Koontz (born July 9, 1945 in Everett, Pennsylvania), also known under a number of pseudonyms, including Leigh Nichols, is an American writer.

He is best-known for writing many successful novels that could broadly be described as suspense thrillers, but which
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As Rhino notes on its press release for the CD, Halloween is second only to Christmas in consumer spending Consumer demand or consumption is also known as personal consumption expenditure. It is the largest part of aggregate demand or effective demand at the macroeconomic level. . Martha, it says will be touting the release on her radio and television shows as well as appearances on late-night network shows. Some of the sounds on the 40-minute album include, howling winds, creeking doors, beating hearts, rattling chains, the sharpening of knives, hooting owls, crashing thunder and deranged de·range  
tr.v. de·ranged, de·rang·ing, de·rang·es
1. To disturb the order or arrangement of.

2. To upset the normal condition or functioning of.

3. To disturb mentally; make insane.
 laughter. No word if the latter was recorded on one of Martha's trips to the bank.

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Photo: (1 -- color) no caption (cover of Martha Stewart CD)

(2 -- color) no caption (cover of Martha Stewart Living magazine)
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Title Annotation:L.A. Life
Publication:Daily News (Los Angeles, CA)
Date:Aug 22, 2000
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