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You call tell a lot about people by h they carve--and otherwise treat--their Halloween pumpkins.
First of all, the face they inscribe is a sort of Rorschach test of the carver's personality. Trustworthy people will pare in big round eyes, like a fawn's. Ann Martin ("Researching Pet Food," p. 64) would surely make a pumpkin like that.
Triangular eyes demonstrate a certain balance between mind, body and emotions. I can imagine Nell Newman's ("Nell Newman's Own," p. 38 organic pumpkin manifesting harmony as it mediates on her porch beside her surfboard.
Sometimes, though, a pumpkin's mouth is the gateway to the carver's soul. Pumpkins given sharp teeth to frighten generally describe a maker who's a creep. Those showing smarmy grins were made by people whose conceit tells them they are without error. Columnist David Seckman ("Getting Tough," p. 60) must see pumpkins like these in Congress all the time.
We come now to the stem. Most people ...