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...conniving, and he had that perceptive eye which sees through pretension and falsehood. Even those who saw him infrequently knew that they could always count on Denny and always trust him as a friend. Often reserved at first sight, Denny radiated a vivacity which was the envy of darker souls. He had a side-splitting gift for humor, as his roommates, dormmates and others will gladly attest...
...It’s really a fusion of young people,” said Councillor Marjorie C. Decker, who added that she occasionally sat on the pit steps as a teen in Cambridge. “It’s also a deeper, darker site...
...despair at either end of the table, we had better learn to do it gracefully. "We're living through an eclipse of normality, a twilight landscape," says Edward Linenthal, author of The Unfinished Bombing: Oklahoma City in American Memory. "The sun isn't quite right. It's a little darker than it should be when you look at it." And in the strange half-light, people react to the same events in opposite ways. Bars show CNN instead of ESPN because patrons want the latest news, but a family doctor in a Chicago suburb cancels her subscription...
...Ants have a couple of fun-enough tunes up their short sleeves. They have Michael Jackson in their back pocket, at least for a little while. And, decent guys that they are, they’re probably at less risk of self-destruction than their darker, more violent cousins in rock. What they don’t have is a very distinctive sound, or a very impressive show, or anything to indicate that better things...
...gets darker, the parking lot empties fast. Soon Rob’s grandparents will head to a hotel before their morning flight to Florida. Rob will go to stay with a friend in Boston. And Kevin will pack up his three-person fold-up couch, put the trash in his trunk and pull his truck out of the lot until the next tailgate...