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Slowly, I come to my senses. My bare flesh recoils from my icy bathroom tile. I am wearing nothing but my red plaid boxers. There is a putrid stench, but its origin is unclear. Early morning sunlight streams through a window. I bring myself upright and lean against the bathtub. The toilet stands amidst a puddle of vomit. At its sight, I hold back a dry heave. God bless the Hong Kong...
...munchkin from "The Wizard of Oz" and twice as wide. A book so heavy that it takes two librarians to move it. Just such a tome rests quietly in the bottom of Houghton Library, a warehouse for unusual and delicate writings that hides many a freakish volume behind its upright exterior. This ruskie book puts "War and Peace" to shame...
...literally awakened by something preying on my mind. I sat bolt upright in bed and said, "We never found out what happened to those vanished pigeons!" My wife stirred. She'd heard me use that tone of voice before at around that hour in the morning, usually to say something like "Did we forget to drain the pipes...
...true "hidden treasure," so to speak, of the evening--and a powerful singer who had no trouble at all acting--was baritone Vasquez, singing the difficult role of Girogio Germont (a man of high character who realizes he is not as morally superior as he thinks). Debonaire and upright, Vasquez had just the right amount of vocal and dramatic tenderness to keep the role of the pushy father from being a flat-out S.O.B. This is to be attributed no doubt to Vasquez's robust, no-nonsense singing style, which was intense and virtuosic without coming across as being overtly...
...congregants of Corpus Christi are praying on borrowed time. Displaced from their Roman Catholic parish, 550 of them have assembled at the Downtown United Presbyterian Church in Rochester, N.Y. They sit upright in the shiny pews, unused to the immaculate splendor of the organ that frames the altar. But all the strangeness of the loaned space is quickly forgotten in a rustle of excitement. "Oh yeah, she's starting," whispers a parishioner as a sandy-haired woman wearing an alb and cropped green stole stands before the altar...