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 A Mitt Romney mask is seen in Halloween Headquarters, a Halloween supply store, in New York, October 27, 2012. |
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Scandals, political gaffes and rivalries are inspiring Halloween costumes this year, from elaborate store-bought designs to do-it-yourself disguises that need little more than a stapler and a wicked sense of humor. At New York Costumes, a President Barack Obama mask is slightly outselling a mask of Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney, said store manager Tony Bianchi. Big Bird is sold out, flying off the shelves Romney vowed to defund public broadcasting in a presidential debate earlier this month, said Bianchi and also Ereka Dunn, spokeswoman for Ricky's, another New York costume store. "Everything is television-driven or scandal-driven," Bianchi said. Costumes go for as much as $250, he said. Sales of the Joker, the Batman movie villain, dropped below the newer villain Bane this season, likely a result of being outdated than blowback from the deadly Colorado theater shooting by a gunman dressed as the Joker, salespeople said. Ripped-from-the-headlines costumes are popular among do-it-yourselfers who lack cash but have a wealth of ingenuity. One costume creator featured online made a mask to look like "The Beast Jesus," the famously botched fresco retouching done by an aging parishioner at a Spanish church. A photograph of the costume posted this month reportedly got 750,000 hits in two days. (Read by Emily Cheng. Emily Cheng is a journalist at the China Daily Website.) (Agencies) |
丑聞、政客出丑、政敵是今年萬圣節(jié)服裝的靈感之源，不管是從商店里買來的成品道具，還是自己動(dòng)手做的化裝服飾，你需要的只不過是一個(gè)訂書機(jī)，還有一點(diǎn)邪惡的幽默感。 在出售熱門萬圣節(jié)服裝的“紐約道具店”，據(jù)該店經(jīng)理托尼?比安池說，奧巴馬總統(tǒng)的面具銷量比共和黨總統(tǒng)候選人米特?羅姆尼的面具略勝一籌。 比安池和另一家紐約道具服飾店Ricky's的女發(fā)言人艾瑞卡?杜恩稱，羅姆尼本月初期在總統(tǒng)辯論中發(fā)誓要撤銷對公共廣播公司的資金投入，這讓公共廣播公司著名兒童節(jié)目《芝麻街》的主角大鳥成為銷售熱門?，F(xiàn)在“大鳥”道具已經(jīng)全部賣光。 比安池說：“所有的熱門道具或是因?yàn)殡娨暬鹌饋淼模蚴且驗(yàn)槌舐?。”他說，道具標(biāo)價(jià)可高達(dá)250美元。 銷售人員說，今年萬圣節(jié)，電影《蝙蝠俠2》里的反派角色“小丑”道具的銷量落后于《蝙蝠俠3》里的新反派“毒藥”，可能是因?yàn)槭艿缴泶靶〕蟆狈椀某謽尨跬皆诳屏_拉多影院開槍殺人事件的負(fù)面影響，不過更可能是因?yàn)檫^時(shí)了。 扮成頭條人物的道具服裝在那些喜歡自己動(dòng)手、沒什么錢但是心靈手巧的人當(dāng)中很受歡迎。 一個(gè)道具制作者在網(wǎng)上曬了自己制作的一個(gè)面具，看起來就像西班牙教堂一位年邁的教區(qū)居民修補(bǔ)的因過于拙劣而出名的壁畫“野獸基督”。本月上傳的該道具的照片據(jù)說在兩天內(nèi)點(diǎn)擊量就突破了75萬。 相關(guān)閱讀 （中國日報(bào)網(wǎng)英語點(diǎn)津 陳丹妮 編輯：Julie） |
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Vocabulary: gaffe: 失態(tài)；過失；出丑 blowback: 反作用 botched: 弄糟了的，搞砸了的 retouching: 修整 |
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