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...displays of loot in most Broadway theater lobbies, the merchandise counter for Rent looks downright spare: a modest assortment of sweatshirts, mugs, CDs and T shirts in basic-grunge black-and-white. The show, too--on my first return visit since reviewing it 12 years ago--looks a bit paler than it did back in 1996, when it opened off-Broadway to so much acclaim that it made the jump to Broadway just two months later. The aids-centric story lines in this East Village update of La Bohème seem a little dated now, and the umpteenth replacement cast...
...white balloon rose on a soft west wind, rocking gently as its string fluttered. The higher it went, the paler it became. After 15 seconds, the pale blue sky showed through its center, and the bell clanged again and another balloon began rising and growing pale...
...squatters' lack of rights, citing the case of a woman who organized an unofficial rental agreement with one family of indigenous Fijians. The woman had electricity connected to her shack, but then the chief plugged the freezer of his fish shop into her supply. "She was looking paler and paler when I saw her," he says. "I thought she was getting sick, but it was that she could not pay these electricity bills. I moved her out. But when I went back to dismantle her house the landowners were standing there with cane knives. They said the structure...
...Hussein was never really the same in court after that. For the remainder of the trial, Hussein was generally more subdued, realizing no doubt the fate closing in on him. Even Hussein's outburst today, as the judge sentenced him to death, was much paler than the rages he's shown the court before...
...Predictions: You will not take Expos 52 next year. You will be unable to study for finals because you will be too busy ogling scantily-clad sunbathers by the Charles. You will get a B+ anyway. You arrive at home paler and smarter than the rest of your friends. You will pack away all of your Harvard insignias for September...