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...train moving forward and another train moving backward, when coupled with Manuela's voice-over of the history and purpose for her journey detract from Almodvar's intention that the scene serve as a point of transition and departure. In an almost music-video-like sequence, a distraught Manuela peruses the local transvestite meat market. She does not find Lola, but she does come upon La Agrado (Antonia San Juan), or the agreeable one, Manuela's transsexual friend. La Agrado is the movie's ironic wit, garnering lines such as a full list of surgery she has undergone to look...

Author: By Nikki Usher, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Almodóvar in Love...With Mom? | 12/3/1999 | See Source »

...sequitur, like this: "It was already Thursday, but his lordship's artificial limb could not be found; therefore, having directed the servants to fill the baths, he seized the tongs and set out at once for the edge of the lake, where the Throbblefoot Spectre still loitered in a distraught manner...

Author: By Annie Bourneuf, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Gorey Loses His Touch | 10/15/1999 | See Source »

...Science Center but also tucked away in such convenient locales as the second floor of Sever, the first floor of Boylston and the basement of Emerson. It's gotten so easy to check e-mail on campus that a group of students shopping in Boston this summer were distraught when they couldn't find a Unix pew at which to secularly kneel...

Author: By Susannah B. Tobin, | Title: Wasting Time at the Kiosk | 10/7/1999 | See Source »

...very excited about going to school. She was looking for a new beginning," Branchini said. "She is emotionally distraught and I don't think she even realizes yet how serious this is. All we want to do is get her professional help...

Author: By Kirsten G. Studlien, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Alleged B.U. Rapist Released on Bail | 9/17/1999 | See Source »

...sign inside the door of the public toilet advising against disposing anything other than toilet paper down the toilet, that I suddenly remembered those pages. I have never read through those words, because a psycho stole them and absconded with them to Australia. At the time, I was distraught. There was every proof of all the people with whom I had ever shared any love--gone in a single tasteless move. But today, I think: Wastepaper. And by extension, wastepeople...

Author: By Phua MEI Pin, | Title: Forget Me Not, For The Time Being | 8/13/1999 | See Source »

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