Word: alleyways
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Champalal Changoiwala still goes to work in the mornings. Wearing a crisp button-down shirt, his silver hair combed into a neat part, he makes his way to the crumbling colonial edifice of the Calcutta Stock Exchange on Lyons Range, an alleyway that teems with beggars, food hawkers and fortune tellers. In his windowless office on the ground floor, he puts in eight-hour days, working the phones and scouring the financial pages for that next big investment...
...drugs? That may depend a bit on how you feel about the never-ending drama of Robert Downey Jr. Already facing a court date this week for a drug-related arrest in November, Downey was busted again last week when police found him lurking after midnight in an alleyway behind a motel in Culver City, Calif. He was cited for suspicion of being under the influence of a controlled substance. More serious charges, if any, will await the results of a urine test administered that night. Downey, who was immediately fired from Ally McBeal, quickly checked himself into a rehab...
...crowded local film festival scene in recent years, a festival that calls itself the Boston Underground Film Festival (B.U.F.F.) has some explaining to do. “Underground” quickly conjures up the image of trench-coated filmmakers tentatively handing their reels to festival officials in some rainy alleyway just after midnight—so there must be some brand of rebellion in their work. Boundaries must be broken, ideals must remain reasonably uncompromised...
...form as a producer, laying down beats for each number that are spare but never simplistic and that reverberate with menace, like footsteps following you down an alleyway late at night. The verbal flow on the album is involving and smooth; there's a smart mix of jokey lines ("In a room full of crackers/ I might cut the cheese," runs a passage on the track Redbull) and serious statements. A section on I Can't Go to Sleep laments, "Somebody raped our women/murdered our babieshit us with the crack and guns/in the early...
...form as a producer, laying down beats for each number that are spare but never simplistic, and that reverberate with menace, like footsteps following you down an alleyway late at night. The verbal flow on the album is involving and smooth; there's a smart mix of jokey lines ("In a room full of crackers/ I might cut the cheese," runs one passage on the track "Redbull") and serious statements. One section on "I Can't Go to Sleep" laments "Somebody raped our women/ murdered our babies/ hit us with the crack and guns/ in the early...