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...happened to be in the store one night down at the corner of Upton St. and Ed Beardsley, this fellow connected with the Avatar, came in and he had put them in the store to sell, and he asked Jimmy in the store, how they were selling, the clerk of the store how they were selling, and Jimmy said look up there and see how they're selling. I said what is it? He said a newspaper. I said something new? And this Beardsley said yeah. So I looked at one of the copies of Avatar. He asked...
...Office took a fatal overdose of drugs. On Oct. 18, Bundeswehr Lieut. Colonel Johannes Grimm, 54, working in the Alarm and Mobilization Section of the Defense Ministry, shot himself. He, too, said the government, was despondent over an incurable disease. On Oct. 23, it was announced that a senior clerk in the Defense Ministry had disappeared after leaving a suicide note...
...avoid this effect, and thus make the fall of the three all the more dramatic, Senelick is forced to mute the first act. Unfortunately Leantio, the merchant's clerk who loses his high-born bride on account of his stupid, Ben Franklin punctilliousness, has some of his best and most revealing lines in the opening moments: losing them destroys some of the irony so carefully worked into succeeding scenes. But as Kenny McBain went at the role rather gingerly throughout all of last night's performance, Leantio may be better served when he settles into the part...
...session, all the panoply will be familiar. The robed Justices will file behind the long Honduras mahogany bench as usual and take their seats in the high-backed black leather chairs set against red velvet draperies. The bronze clock will strike 10 o'clock, and the court clerk will intone the traditional "Oyez! Oyez...
...William Joyce, the chief clerk, is starting back over the resolutions that each caucus has offered to see if there are changes to be made. East Cambridge passes. The Central Four-Model Cities Area, with its complement of student radicals, moves that the East Cambridge resolutions condemning the "growth" of the Universities be changed to read "expansion." The clerk is confused as to what the change is, whether it is acceptable to East Cambridge or indeed whether it has not been adopted already...