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Some people even threw in extra theatrics and party favors to liven up their pitch.

Harris is a competent politician and knows how to work in personal details and feelings-talk to liven things up, but ultimately, there's a reason so much of the news industry is geared away from issues coverage and towards the horse race.

Instead, it aims to liven up the Universal Monsters narratives by highlighting villains and heroines such as Saskia Van Helsing, daughter of Dracula hunter Abraham Van Helsing; the Bride of Frankenstein; and Dracula’s own vampire daughter, Countess Marya Zaleska.

“Just so he doesn’t liven things up too much,” she added.

The food was “inedible”; the harassing guards viewed her as “a freak show to liven their shift.”