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...tired of hearing about this place," Tomassoni said. "They have a real good hockey club, and they get sky-high for this game like every one else who plays...
Students with large families or easily insulted friends were dismayed to find that Commencement tickets are going for up to $100. Frequent readers of kiosk posters will not find such sky-high prices surprising. Prices for scalped tickets are high every year. But apparently, the phenomenon impressed somebody: news of Commencement ticket prices were reported by the Associated Press and later in The New York Times...
...Sky-High Prices...
...state his goal by quoting Spanish conquistador Hernan Cortes: "To win -- or to win." But in recent months the supremely confident Collor, 41, has notched precious few victories. The inflation rate, after being cut from 80% a month to less than 10%, is back to 17%. Interest rates are sky-high; unemployment is rising. Last week Collor got more bad news. In runoff elections for 15 governorships, progovernment candidates lost in the biggest and most influential states, including Sao Paulo...
...deranged energy, so many bravura images, that it's hard not to be seduced by the sick wonder of it all. One character (Crispin Glover) puts cockroaches in his underwear and breaks into sobs when told that Christmas is still six months away. Heads get crushed, punctured and blown sky-high; a dog trots past with a severed hand in its mouth. Lula has the movie pegged when, at one typical moment, she exclaims, "Lordy, what was that all about...