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Fares will be comparable to the cost of riding the T and free transfers between buses can be requested upon boarding. Transfers are only valid between Night Owl buses at Government Center or Kenmore Square. The Night Owl buses will accept coins and T tokens, although drivers may accept dollar bills at their discretion and change will not be provided...
...hear traditional news types disparage things like the book reviews on Amazon.com. Oh, they're just friends of the author's. Well, some of them might be. But a regular reader might wonder, What's wrong with that? Why doesn't that represent a valid point of view? Anyway, these friends-of-the author reviews represent a tiny minority of the reviews on Amazon.com. Moreover, most book readers seem to care more about what other book readers think than some highfalutin' critic. For the most part, critics write to impress other critics, not to help readers...
...Thousands of upstanding citizens spend the best years of their lives trying to take a garage band bigtime and never score a record deal, goes the knee-jerk response, so how can already rich and universally-adored actors feel they have the right to regard music as their sideline? Valid as that complaint may be, a survey of three upcoming records by movie stars reveals that every once in a while celebrity dabblers can excel at making pop precisely because they're showmen first and musicians second...
...really seriously unless they are in some way "transgressive." To expect transgression from Thiebaud is to miss out on his pictures. He wants to offer people an intelligent pleasure, a spectrum of feeling that isn't snobbish or exclusive--and that acknowledges that there are some kinds of completely valid art, maybe more than we want to think, that go deep just because they look simple. They have concealed themselves behind the pleasure they offer...
...York Times reported that a British journalist armed with a fake title and an expense account was able to conquer New York society within a week. Yet the point of this story is not the superficiality of New York’s elite (although that’s a valid point to make). The point is that New York society is infinitely mobile. Everyone, even a fake aristocrat—or a bookish intern—is welcome...