Word: nearly
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...turned and nodded at the black-clad couple smoking outside as I ducked my head and stepped through a near-invisible door sunk into the back of the building. My brother and I exchanged meaningful glances as we passed over the threshold between the outside world and the first annual Boston Underground Film Festival (BUFF). We knew something was about to happen...
almost cruel, to enjoy the no-nonsensecertainty of the prose in the fiction when, justthe page before, one sees the near-necrophilictendency which powers his writing...
Yannatos' demanding ideas about how the music should sound often paid off immediately-in strauss' Don Juan, a phrase which had to his ears fallen flat ("it sounds like the thing got stuck in bubblegum") was then hewn to near-perfection, ushering in an exhilarating moment that should stick out in tonight's performance...
...vote of eight to seven, a bill that would allow Mass. liquor stores to sell alcohol on Sundays squeaked through the joint Government Regulations Committee earlier this week, clearing the way for its consideration by the full House of Representatives in the near future...
...According to Jeffrey A. Kaplan, manager of University Wines on Mass. Ave. near Porter Square, the new law would be more significant for retailers in the vicinity of the state line who face competition from New Hampshire and Vermont liquor stores that are permitted to stay open on Sundays...