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...Dedham Hilton is a complex of fake-looking brown brick stuck in the middle of a suburban no man's land. And yet, on this cold Saturday night, the parking lot was full of cars from places like Needham and Stoneham...
...person singular and prone to wooden understatement. He has little knack for explaining what he is up to in terms of grand theories of history, strategy or geopolitics. After a breakthrough in the nuclear arms talks, all Vance could muster for the press was that diplomatic progress was achieved "brick by brick, inch by inch...
Thomas Jefferson High is a stolid red-orange-brick block of building set down in an East New York neighborhood of boarded-up row houses. In the past four years, 70 students have been killed, shot, stabbed or permanently injured on the school grounds. According to a report prepared for the New York state assembly and quoted by the New York Daily News, 50% of the 1,900 students have some kind of puncture wound on their body at any given time. "T.J." has a "grieving room," where the students can seek peace and quiet and counseling when these things...
Perhaps the most striking thing about East New York is its enclosed, suffocating feeling. Most of the people live in the city's housing projects--brown brick buildings with narrow, dimly-lit corridors and miniature apartments. The schools, such as Thomas Jefferson High, have thick steel mesh spread across each broken window, and iron fences topped with masses of razor wire which surround the school and its playground...
Then there were the requisite tours of the big salmon-colored brick buildings; the Governor's Palace, the State Capitol and the Wren Building of the College of William and Mary...