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...write this as a warning to all eloquent, drunken lovers. My window opens onto a particularly busy path circling Lowell House and facing the Fly. By construction that would make the sonic ancient Egyptians proud, conversations spoken at ordinary volume drift upward with perfect clarity. Our protagonists can hardly guess they're involving an entire Lowellian wing in their declarations...
...have heard declarations of love, drunken ballads, political arguments and a Grammy-worthy Mariah Carey impersonation. Inevitably, there are voices I recognize, stories whose beginnings I've heard. Occasionally, feeling guilty, I've opened the window noisily or turned off the light; sudden noise is enough to move the epic along. Twice I've even left the room...
DIED. SCREAMIN' JAY HAWKINS, 70, wildly theatrical rock singer; after surgery to treat an aneurysm; in Neuilly-sur-Seine, France. He was best known for his drunken rendition of I Put a Spell on You (1956), an underground classic replete with screams, grunts and gurgles...
...smaller factors have put downward pressure on the crime rate and should continue to do so. Better technology means you can install more sensitive alarm systems in your home and carry less cash on the street. The wane of Jack Daniels (and the rise of Evian) has yielded fewer drunken rages. Finally, although the prison-building boom sparked protest from those who insist we should spend the money on rehabilitation, no one can argue with cold reality: jails and prisons today lock up nearly 2 million people, and you simply can't knock over a 7-Eleven...
...Half-drunken fans mingled with obsequious IOP-types and secret service men. We followed Alter into a giant cathedral warehouse where acres of laptops and television monitors and telephones and fax machines made a tremendous racket. Hunched journalists, attached to their keyboards and notebooks madly created copy while mumbling into phones and cursing sporadically; a wall of television screens flashed campaign coverage from every imaginable channel--except FOX--they preferred "Party of Five" over McCain. Huddled together, we stared at this splendor of technology and manpower. Alter flew off to another interview, and Franklin spied his heroine, Arianna Huffington while...