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...forgettable speeches (something called the "livability agenda" was much on his mind) in front of small, dutiful crowds. All the while he was studiously ignoring Bradley, who was working hard and well below the radar: raising money, recruiting a grass-roots army in New Hampshire, offering himself as a pure and plausible alternative...
...this UK-top-10 album use the music as a point of departure, and that approach works. In Handel's "Largo from Xerxes," the sounds drift by: shimmering chords, spacey burbles, eerie bells, groans, rumbles, tinkling chimes, thumping bass and more. This is pleasing, unobtrusive mood music, where pure sound is the main attraction...
...only thoroughbred horse-racing track in Greater Boston, Suffolk Downs is a collapsed cathedral of pseudo-science and pure chance, of bitter old men and clouds of cigarette smoke, of nausea and human tragedy--and occasionally, of proof that hope springs eternal. Suffolk Downs is, to the uninitiated, no doubt an intimidating place, towering over East Boston, framed by the tracks of the blue line outbound for Wonderland. To the regulars, though it is a decrepit mass, it is also a place where the possibility of instant money--and more importantly, instant redemption-is omnipresent...
...ninth home run or a buzzer-beater--everyone knows it can happen, but no one thinks today will be the day. Unshaded rallied around the last turn and slaughtered the field down the stretch, winning by a good 10 lengths. As he pulled away and I stood shouting with pure joy at the wall of TVs, I noticed that just one other man was making noise--a grey-haired black man with a Caribbean lilt was calling out for Unshaded, too. When it was all over, he turned to me and drawled, "Easy, easy." Behind me, a 60-something veteran...
...Ludicrous. What can I say? Pure ridiculous speculation," he said. No reports of any type of relationship beyond that of teacher and student have materialized...