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...window, it is a normal world with birds and traffic, but Ruby lives in a music box, where the music is strung together with sturdy strumming, straightforward rhythm-bones and innocent voices on the cusp of corruption. She can hear little else than the tinkling and moaning of a hollow synthesizer that gets so lonely it would be frightening to anyone else. Her boyfriend calls to her, "Baby!" but she is deaf to his song. She is in a strange, sad world of impressions where the eyelids beat to a psychedelic beat. No one wants her to stop...
...almost equal quality is a very early panel depicting a tonsured, hollow-cheeked and rather minatory St. Francis, holding a cross and an open New Testament and exhibiting the stigmata on his hands and feet, standing ramrod-straight and flanked by four scenes of his posthumous miracles. It was done by an unknown artist, either an Italian or a Byzantine Greek, in the second third of the 13th century. It looks stiff and archaic, yet the painter has infused a remarkable energy into some of its details, such as the calligraphic loops on the blue robe of a madwoman from...
...realize that much of this disquisition must sound like hollow nostalgia. And I'm sure that many of you are chomping at the bit, anxious to experience college living. You'll get that chance soon enough. But, in the meantime, if you find yourself feeling restless, remember: The grass isn't always greener. For instance, here at Harvard, it's teal. Noah D. Oppenheim '00 is a social studies concentrator in Adams House. His column appears on alternate Fridays...
Clinton dismissed Milosevic's offers as hollow and vowed that NATO "was determined to stay united." Albright was to fly to NATO headquarters in Brussels on Sunday to give 18 other foreign ministers a stay-the-course pep talk. That shouldn't be hard: public support for the operation is high in European capitals, and most of their leaders have been burned at one time or another by promises Milosevic has made and later broken...
Kamenica said NATO threats have been hollow in the past and remained meaningless to Milosevic...