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Even if Sargent's words represent more than political tact, there are good reasons for believing that the DPW is intent on selecting the Brook-line-Elm Street route--the one that would wipe out 1000 to 1500 families and run right next to Central Square. First, it has been the route long championed by his agency. Second, plans for this route are farther along than for any other. And third, any other realistic alternative would run along the fringe of the M.I.T. campus; the political power of M.I.T., a venus flytrap for federal research contracts, is latent, but great...
...were scarlet. There was blood on the doves, bright-red blood and a gentle look of surprise in their round eyes. Willie felt faint. His hand grasped the knife in his jeans. Willie split the trouts' bellies with his knife, washed them in the cold water of the brook, and wiped the blood off his knife with a skunk-cabbage leaf. She had red hair and her blouse was open between her breasts. The train was going through the tunnel and it made a glumph sound as it went in and the wail of the whistle came...
...Wilfred J. Funk's listing of the ten most beautiful words in the English language [June 11] was a challenge to use them all in one short sentence. "The luminous mist rose from the murmuring brook at the hush of dawn with a melody like a tranquil lullaby of golden chimes...
...sack and pukka sahib: busby brows that shoot up in startled innocence or beetle down with Mac the Knife malevolence; lugubrious eyes rocketing around like apoplectic billiard balls; a Scotch-sodden thatch of mustache, and, of course, those two front teeth, gaping wide as Becher's Brook. Wherever he takes a stroll, from Soho to Sunset Boulevard, Terry-Thomas is stopped by little old ladies who ask him to smile. When he obliges, they always exclaim: "It's real...
...vice president of National General Corp., a movie-theater firm; and Nicole Gillman, 26, a pretty, French magazine reporter who met him eight months ago during his unsuccessful campaign for the Senate; he for the third time; in a Paris civil ceremony three days after being divorced by Nancy Brook Joy, 37, his wife of eight years...