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...adult men looking for a good time. Mai and Rika hang here round the clock, part of a new fad sweeping up very young Japanese girls. It's called puchi iede, or "petite runaway." Home is what they're running from. Shibuya, with its 24-7 excitements and black-lit havens, is freedom central. "Petite" refers not to the size of the runaway, though many are mere wisps on the cusp of puberty, but to the short time the girls stay away from home: typically a few days, or until they need clean underwear...
...maybe let us ... you know ... " Yuko giggles. (They've heard of groupies who have partied with the band.) Passing men notice them, and the girls know they can always use them for a free meal or a bed. But they settle in a manga kissa, a brightly lit caf? lined with shelves of comic books and crowded with other teens, curling up until morning, when they'll hop a train to the next stop on the boy band's tour...
There are no plastic seat trays, no cramped leg muscles and, most of all, no fear-of-flying tremors. Instead, passengers are cocooned within wood-paneled cabins lit with brass lamps. A plush dining car with red-cushioned seats serves grilled steaks and French wine. And, best of all, a fluffy cotton comforter awaits weary travelers at the end of the day. Lulled by the rhythmic, rattling sway, even the most insecure voyager would find worries melting into a dreamless sleep in almost no time...
Betrayal is an idea that again recurs in the symbolic piece, “140,” which draws its name from the number of the sonnet that inspired it. The staging is simple yet effective. As the vignette begins, the stage is partially lit, with two characters in the foreground and others behind, all connected by ropes that they hold fast. As a web of deception and disloyalty is gradually woven, the ropes become increasingly tangled. This symbolism works surprisingly well because of the scene’s deliberate unraveling...
...when Lamont closes its doors, there are few other quiet, study-conducive places for students to go. House libraries also close relatively early, leaving undergraduates stranded in poorly lit dining halls or their oftentimes noisy bedrooms to study late into the night. First-year students and the residents of some Houses even lack the luxury—if it could be called that—of an open dining hall...