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...lowered from a trap door to walk with hunchbacks and adulterers. The fornicators wear brocaded robes and the chaste are no less adorned. What matters is the glittering recitative--the strange power of the counter-tenor and his haunting arias. The characters and their conflicts are secondary amusements; harmless distractions as each singer is guided or goaded into glory by the basso continuo. What matters is the music...
...Abramian is asking the SJC not to hold a new trial on any component of the jury award. Instead, his lawyers are asking the SJC to declare the judge's incorrect jury instructions "harmless error," such that the punitive damages could be reinstated and no new trial would be held...
People have long been concerned about the cancer-causing potential of microwaves, which at a distance are harmless, but when close to the head could be more worrisome. That's why the FCC regulates the amount that phones are allowed to emit, and why some exceeding those standards have been recalled...
...seemingly harmless shot in practice found it's way through her layers of padding and broke Springer's collar bone...
...later on they realized what he did, how it was good..." A girl named Ellen picks up: "Once people prove they can win, they're all glorified." "Close," prods Mendelson. Another girl administers the coup de grace: "Muhammad Ali, the farther he got into Parkinson's--now he's harmless, and so they're not afraid of him anymore. He's like a Hester now that she's a good girl." Mendelson, triumphant: "Once an enemy of society has been defeated, we can embrace them and call her cute little Hester, cute little Muhammad Ali. They don't pose...