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...like umbrellas--not flowers so much as an urban person's idea of a flower, the sort of thing you might find decorating the Citicorp lobby, or around Lincoln Center's glass and steel and concrete. The center of the stage is a huge black reflecting pool, a tar pit to trap Narcissus; around it is a path of Harvard Square brick, and around that a "lawn" of torn Hefty bags. Everything is unhealthy and artificial, beautiful in its way, but beautiful for adults only. Welcome to the East Side...
...brought the lantern lower, until its light fell ... It was a pit of quicklime; and, as the lantern descended closer, it could be seen that the gases had swollen within it and forced up a counterfeit image of what it had consumed...
...girls packed so tight together they could not move hand or foot . . . and that is the last anyone has seen of Teresa. I suppose she was crushed to death and the corpse too flat to be recognized. About 100 dead girls were carried out and buried in a common pit...
...company closed its excavation pit adjacent to the Cambridge Common September 12, and has not set a date for resumption of work, spokesmen for the MBTA said yesterday...
...tuition pocket, though, is somewhat of a bottomless pit. With the number of students applying to Harvard more than six times the number needed to fill Yard beds, the University could probably double tuition fees and still produce an acceptable Class of '85. Financial decision-makers should be commended for scrupulously avoiding any temptation of that sort. Their now familiar analogy--that the pricetag for a year at Harvard is about the same as the cost of a good new car--still holds true, even as tuition inches into double figures...