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Unfortunately, this is hardly enough to sustain a play, which has to be why almost every line of dialogue is repeated three or four times, why the actors take three-second pauses two or three times in every sentence and why there are frequent minute-long intervals devoted to a character’s getting dressed or lighting lanterns. A line like “the water had a soft lilac glow” takes about thirty seconds for the actors to deliver...
Harvard students with frequent late-night cravings for beef jerky and Twinkies will now be able to acquire these delicacies all night long on Thursdays, Fridays and Saturdays at Tommy’s Value...
Despite his paralysis and soft, raspy drawl with frequent pauses for breath, Flynt is a large and imposing 60-year-old man. His sizable head—spared the ravages of balding, either by fortune or artifice—rotates around a slightly left-leaning axis and is cushioned by a wrap-around double chin, while his massive torso seems like it should consume far more space than is available in his felt-lined wheelchair. His clothing and accessories reflect the range of roles he seeks to span—while his dark suit jacket would easily pass on Capitol...
Certainly the change will bring some benefits. UNICCO’s more frequent service will be a welcome improvement over Dorm Crew’s understandable but unpleasant lack of assiduity. Furthermore, UNICCO’s workers alert students in advance of their visits such that they can plan around them—generally not the case with Dorm Crew’s notoriously erratic schedule. Indeed, Dorm Crew should mimic their professional counterparts and establish in the various Houses timetables to which they can remain relatively faithful...
...Indeed, despite frequent claims that structural reform is finally taking hold, Japan Inc. overall is not getting measurably more efficient. Although many companies have successfully cleared out excess debt, labor and capacity by cutting costs and streamlining operations, Katz argues that such improvements have so far been confined mainly to large companies. That's good news for lots of punters, but it is less significant for the economy as a whole. Katz notes that according to the Finance Ministry, Japan's 5,600 largest companies employ only 11% of the workforce and account for just 17% of GDP. And although...