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...little further down Brattle, tucked in The Gap's store front, a large gathering clots this otherwise fluid urban scene. Facing those who till the sidewalk and spill into the street, a burly, bearded man clad in a tuxedo jacket, narrow pink tie and baggy army fatigues finishes the Motown milestone "My Girl." An elderly gentleman steps forward and drops a bill into the open guitar case. "We should all learn from this man tonight," bellows the musician, mocking the voice of Sunday morning TV-gospel preachers. The crowd laughs, and some swell toward the case appreciatively. The guitarist asks...
Twean lite it wer the 1st dark coming on. Bat lite it wer and dimminy the pink and red stumps glimmering in the coppises like loppt off arms and legs and the rivver hy and hymmering. The dogs wer howling nor it wernt like no other howling I ever heard it wer a kynd of wyld hoapless soun it wer a lorn and oansome yoop yaroo...
Aluminous pink sunset on the planet Mars. The unexpected eruption of volcanoes on the tiny Jovian moon lo. Swirling storms on Jupiter. A continent-size landmass hidden under the thick, sulfurous clouds of Venus. The astonishingly beautiful and complex rings of Saturn...
...grainy, murky, like a kinescope of some 1948 "Kraft Television Theater" production. Afterimages cast a split-second shadow on every movement. Then a sound is heard, a soldier arms his rifle, a shot is fired-and bright red flame spits out of the barrel. The sky is suddenly soiled pink with brooding clouds. Lightning flashes, and it is as unnaturally red as the gun blast. The forces of nature are gathering to announce the beginning of a thundering melodrama-one in which the technique provides the action...
...Senate Judiciary Committee hastened to reassure the woman sitting before them that perfect civility would mark what one called the " historic occasion." The courtliness displayed at last week's confirmation hearings was so eiffusive that it seemed surprising that the green baize tablecloth had not been changed to pink, the better to honor Arizona's Sandra Day O'Connor, 51, the first woman nominated to be a Justice of the Supreme Court...