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...meeting's pond. A family of career criminals who'd started out 10 years ago by robbing the houses around them every other week had prostitutes and drug dealers hanging around. A crack house was four blocks north. A local grocery was selling drug paraphenalia as more prostitutes had been pling their trade in a nearby park. Many people began to talk about moving out. Everyone felt frustrated. Where were the police...
...these Harvard bookstores seem altogether too bourgeois for you, try Revolution Books, at 38 JFK Street. Revolution Books offers every manner of leftist literature, and probably has more copies of the Communist Manifesto anywhere outside of, well, Cuba. In addition, Revolution Books has all the paraphenalia that a good leftist needs to lead the fight against oppression (bumper stickers, buttons...
Budge's eccentric meditations appear relatively tame once Grass (John Bottoms) plows into the room, dragging an I.V. stand with bottles pumping fluids into his every orifice. Grass claims to suffer from "heavy water." After some banter about medical exotica like "dangling paraphenalia" and "polyester blood," a nurse comes to take Grass back to the "Day Room" in the psychiatric wing. Then this nurse is taken away as a looney...
Corcoran said that his company which runs stores near Harvard and Boston College has signs posted at each store saying it is unaffiliated with the colleges. Harvard has never attempted to prevent the store from selling school paraphenalia, he said...
...tale is edited more and more in favor of commercials. This year such Grinch destruction was taken to an extreme. As reflected in the title, the central part of the story is how the Grinch actually steals Christmas. Perhaps the most enjoyable part is seeing the Grinch removing Christmas paraphenalia and sliming his way around the Who-houses. Most everyone harbors enough Scrooge-like thoughts to make this most satisfying. But most of this section wound up on the editing room floor. No more can children or any one else see our hero guiding the Who-electric-train into...