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...defendants, sitting beside two social workers, listen with pale and expressionless faces. Both come from broken homes, with parents reported to have alcohol problems. While Boy B's parents have both been in court, sometimes crying as the grisly murder was described, neither A's mother nor his father has attended the trial. Boy A has kept his composure for the most part, but his companion has sobbed and clutched at the social worker beside him. James' father, Ralph Bulger, listens intently, occasionally closing his eyes...
...conspirator on the other side, or simply psyching me out? Five minutes later, she was sitting exactly where she had been before. And where she had been before, and was now, was not the dark, frightening room of seances and sinister doings I had imagined, but an airy, pale blue front porch. The sun was streaming in, and icons of the Virgin Mary and praying hands decorated the otherwise sparse walls...
Technical writers use TeX for another important reason: it's great for composing mathematical equations. Most commercial DTP products pale next to TeX when it comes to printing out, say, a Fast Fourier Transform equation in a way appealing to most readers...
Americans, obsessed today with the image of a soldier's pale body dragged through the streets of Mogadishu, will find the power struggle in Russia a bigger worry in the long run. After the U.S. is out of Somalia, Yeltsin's foes will still be everywhere in Russia. The atavistic forces may have lost last week, but they will reorganize and wait for another opportunity...
...acting is a bit sketchy, its flaws pale in comparison with those of the camera work. What could Martin have been thinking? One despairs of him. His goal seems to have been to cause the viewer headache instead of render a harmonious picture of 19th-century society, for the camera darts about in a peripatetic ad nauseum of rapid-fire montage as if it were affixed to the neck of a hummingbird. Again and again, its strategy is to alight on one item after another--a glove, a calling card, a painting, a bauble--until it seems that Martin...