Houppert went on to write a book, The curse: confronting the last unmentionable taboo: menstruation, which challenged "the culture of concealment".
According to Stout, who has poked around newspaper archives, my 1986 column was the first time anybody had ever written about a curse involving Frazee and "Nanette" and Ruth.
In his meager spare time, Perls has been dabbling in writing a screenplay about a curse put upon the Boston Red Sox by the ghost of Babe Ruth, who died in 1948 at the age of 53.
Alan Grant returned for a second outing to write Curse, about a grave digger who unleashed a 150 year old curse onto Smallville, and Clark's attempt to put everything back the way it was.
In 1990, Boston Globe columnist Dan Shaughnessy wrote a book titled The Curse of the Bambino, criticizing the Red Sox for the sale of Babe Ruth, and publicized the curse.
Alan Grant returned to write Curse, about a gravedigger who unleashes a 150-year-old curse onto Smallville and Clark's attempts to put things right.
Four years later, my esteemed colleague at The Boston Globe, Dan Shaughnessy, wrote a book called "The Curse of the Bambino". So now it's history.
The Chinese author Wang Gang wrote a bruising novella, "The Curse of Forbes," and modeled his female protagonist after, yes, the Forbes rich-lister Zhang Xin.
In the Australian edition of the 2002 Wisden Cricketers' Almanack, he wrote a chapter titled The Curse of Sledging.
Philip Glass isn't the kind of composer to be daunted by the traditional curse of writing a ninth symphony.
