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...bright spots this year was in the finance committee, where members continued the work of Councillors Brian R. Blais '97 and Edward B. Smith III '97 in reforming student grants guidelines. But still, about 20 organizations were denied funding requests. Meanwhile, two council executives spent $400 on airline tickets for a junket to Philadelphia. Remember: that's your money they're spending...
CRLS Principal Edward Sarasin returned to the school yesterday after being reassigned to work at home last Friday by Superintendent Mary Lou McGrath...
...Edward ... heard a great whooshing sound and in the same instant saw the elevator shaft fill with a sudden rocketlike uprush of flame and gas, a blazing cylinder made visible as the elevator door exploded outward, showering sparks and embers on all in the room, setting fires on the green felt of the pool tables, and hurling into the air blazing splinters and sticks, one of which pierced the breast of Katrina and instantly set her gown aflame...
...Edward, like many of Kennedy's Celtic charmers, is tough and fireproof. He saves his wife but discovers that the disaster has transformed her into a perpetual mourner, a woman as cool and distant as a piece of Victorian cemetery statuary. In contrast, Edward defies fate with...
...Kennedy's effective devices here is to insert scenes from Daugherty's autobiographical plays from the early years of the 20th century. In them Edward's love for Katrina survives above the wreckage of their marriage. In other lightly veiled dramatizations of his life, he lashes out at a former mistress who sleeps her way to silent-movie stardom. "Love is vertical," he writes. "You are relentlessly horizontal." Off the stage he confronts the novel's villain, an envious journalist and failed writer, with the killer line, "If your fiction was half as imaginative as your lies, you would have...