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While the park would beautify the Quincy Square area, Galluccio said, he wanted to make sure that it would not lead to increased vagrant activity...
...everyone-humiliate-everyone-else world -- a place at constant war over food crises and turf disputes. It is also a world wholly aware of itself as an artistic fabrication. A joke will apologize for itself by sprouting an ear of corn (Get it? Corny!). A character will pluck a vagrant "hair" from the film-projector lamp, or abruptly go monochrome because he passed a reading technicolor ends here. "Ain't we in the wrong picture?" asks Red Riding Hood of the wolf in Swing Shift Cinderella. By keying the insane pace, wild exaggeration, mock-cheerful tone and inside references that...
Unlike many losing campaigns, the Crimson's season was not marked by prolonged losing streaks or rollercoaster consistency. Rather, the team's downfall--its dearth of offensive potency--followed it like a vagrant puppy dog all season, killing its chances in close games, and merely hurting its chances in games which Harvard should have run away with...
...first thing you notice about Harvard Coach Joe Restic is The Nose. Large, long, and crooked as a crag, it functions in conversation as a kind of vagrant puppy dog, pursuing your glance with friendly persistence. You squirm and wiggle in your chair, brush imaginary lint from your shirt and tie your shoes a couple of times to avoid its forthrightness, but it's no use. Slowly, surely, you settle into your chair, turn to The Nose and submit to his intent eyes...
From as early as the second day of the fires that have blackened 200,000 acres of Southern California and rendered thousands homeless, it was obvious that some were not accidental. Aside from one blaze caused by a vagrant's campfire and a few others sparked by fallen power lines or kids playing with matches, everything else was labeled suspicious. But it was not until the smoke, literally, cleared over last week's ruins that police released a shocking estimate. Of the fortnight's 26 major blazes, 20 are regarded as set by arsonists...