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...future Senator and saying, "If you've got a little time to devote to the search for truth, some folks in our room are carrying on an experiment in whether the experience of using marijuana is enhanced if you smoke it while listening through earphones to A Whiter Shade of Pale by Procol Harum...
...prosecutor Buckley brandishing a bulky gun to make a point; or Samuel L. Jackson's face at any of his many stages of pop-eyed rage. Other touches involve the bathing of a Klan member tete-a-tete in ethereal light or Jake's haggard face in the lined shade of half-open blinds...
Think of Emma as the overattentive hostess at the endless round of parties that constitute an Austen novel. As she speaks her wry epigrams, she brandishes a smile that suggests wisdom gaily bestowed on lesser mortals. Though it crinkles with warmth, it is exactly one shade too pleased with itself. Emma could be one of nature's noblewomen, if only she would stop trying to stage-manage other people's lives. Graceful and witty, she is a goddess whose comic flaw is that she wants to play...
...building, neighbors have brief conversations in the elevators. But in the country, neighbors talk for hours in the shade of spacious front and back yards...
...mercury rose to a muggy 100[degrees] in the stands and 112[degrees] on the track itself. Even though the seats were three-fourths empty during the week, more than 100 spectators and athletes had to be treated for heat distress. For the athletes, A.C.O.G. plans to have more shade and hydration stations at Olympic Stadium than USA Track & Field did. For spectators inside the central core of venues known as the Olympic Ring, organizers are promising trucks known as "water buffaloes" in eight Red Cross tents, and dozens of other oases and cooling stations. "Part of what we have...