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...fans, the hustle and bustle of latecomers and the monotone of the announcer calling out "B-9, B-9." Cans of Moxie, beanie babies and glow-in-the-dark troll dolls crowd the long brown folding tables that fill the yellowing walls of the church cafeteria. The scents of stale cigarette smoke and Aqua Net periodically waft into the crowded room as peddlers in blue aprons circulate selling instant Lotto cards. All eyes gaze up at the main stage where numbers dance around the monstrous Bingo Board. The hypnotizing pop of the gyrating bingo balls is only broken...
...speeches were weightless, the arguments stale, the attendance sparse, the outcome rigged--largely because, as a White House veteran put it, "no one really believed what they were saying anyway: the Republicans don't want to impeach Clinton, and the Democrats don't want to let him off the hook." And so both sides went through the motions. One of the oldest Democratic members wandered out into the Speaker's gallery, coughed and spit on the floor. It was a day for disposable cameras, not oil paint...
...Confidential did very well with its mix of a cool cop, a seductive woman and an unusual crime. And One Tough Cop does have all of the ingredients for a cop movie; they just aren't of very good quality and the cake ends up being a little stale...
...jokes that your Science A Core professor reads off his lecture notes getting a bit stale? Spend the night listening to comedy night listening to comedy by Frank Santorelli at Nick's Comedy Shop. It's 18+, so bring some ID. Shows at 7:45 and 10 p.m., 100 Warrenton St. (Boylston T-stop...
...They are nebulous nether regions where allegiances are shady and the rules change within the space of a dozen yards. Tex-Mex, the cuisine born of that uneasy schizophrenia, retains some of the intrigue of its homeland. Few innocent consumers should be bamboozled into believing, for example, that the stale tortilla coated with brown paste and overflowing with sour cream and jack cheese might with pride be called a burrito, or that the proper recipe for guacamole calls for mayonnaise. Just as Hank Quinlan--the crooked cop Welles plays in his recently re-released film noir--might have done...