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This special registration opportunity is part of a Greater Boston drive scheduled to last until March 25 which will encompass all 42 towns in the Greater Boston telephone directory...
...Graves was wounded in World War I, and, psychically at least, suffered the death of the verities that had existed prior to 1914. Like Hemingway, Graves is a romantic and a stoic who believes that one way or another love ends badly. While no single image or object can encompass the trajectory of Graves' thoughts on love, there is a Spanish drink that comes close to it. It is called the sol y sombra (sun and shadow). It comes in two layers. The top half is brandy-masculine, dry, bracing; the bottom half is anisette -sweet, insinuative, treacherous...
Penn's obvious strategy--one that has worked for both squads over the past two years--would encompass a bird-dogging tactic, wherein four or five runners hover near the top two Crimson men, and force them to run off their normal pace, alternately passing them, until they burn...
Just as the first round of SALT was little more than a formal probing, so any early meetings on troop reductions will probably be concerned with working out a common vocabulary, or "dictionary," in the parlance of negotiators. Once that is done, the actual negotiations would have to encompass specific questions not only of manpower, but also weaponry, the balance of foreign and national forces and the scope of defense budgets. With luck, the first probings could begin this summer, preliminary negotiations by fall and perhaps substantive negotiations some time...
...both image and narrative levels. Internal contradictions remain implicit and unarticulated dualities, emotional more than rational. The illusion-reality double ending is perhaps the film's ultimate equivocation, refusing to make even one unambiguous political statement on the crude level of extending the corruption of one cop to encompass his buddies on the police force as well. The film signifies nothing political, but leaves us with a single fascinating freeze-frame fetish to perceive however we wish...