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...visit requires a victory of mind over weather. The great galleries and cathedrals are often hushed and wonderfully solitary, but walking between them can be discouraging on a drizzly afternoon. The secret, explains the experienced traveler, is to visit places that all but the rottenest weather cannot spoil...
There, she said, she never felt safe. There was one refrigerator at the end of the hallway. She kept her 13-month-old daughter's milk there, but feared strangers would tamper with it or the temperamental refrigerator would let it spoil...
Will success spoil Disney? "I sense a little bit of arrogance because they are doing so well," says a Wall Street analyst who follows the company. But Disney's executives deny smugness as if they were warding off an evil spell. "You always have to believe you're in last place," said Eisner recently as he flew across the country in Disney's leased Gulfstream III jet, looking a bit sheepish about the luxury. "Flying on this kind of plane is exactly what leads to your financial demise," he observed...
...Gladys P. Gifford, a Coalition member, called Harvard's decision a "tragic response for the neighborhood, and one that would spoil its own nest...
What is not forgivable is the end to which Michele is maneuvered. It is a glaring, blaring atonality, the only conceivable purpose of which is to help , Polanski prove that he is not a Hitchcockian after all -- more serious, don't you know. But why spoil a perfectly enjoyable, often quite imaginative imitation by insisting on that dubious point...