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...what? And how much will we care when it does? Niffenegger is an extraordinarily sensitive and accomplished writer, and Her Fearful Symmetry is a work of lovely delicacy. With its gravestones and ghosts and pallid, hollow-eyed waifs, it's pure goth porn. At times, it's more. When the lonely phantom Elspeth, longing for solidity, snuggles her ectoplasmic self into a little desk drawer for comfort, it's so viscerally convincing, you wonder how a corporeal being could ever have imagined...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Ghost World | 10/5/2009 | See Source »

...fifth modeling he had done since the Viscount and Viscounta wess had left for Italy, leaving him in a rage of frustration and financial desperation. In order to pay his room and board at the inn, he had been forced to succumb to the inept fumblings of pallid, emaciated men in too-tight breeches, all calling themselves “artists.” Invariably these artists found reasons to constantly touch him, rearranging that arm, this hand, that burnished curl. This, The Stable Boy knew, would be the last time. He growled softly to himself.Tatiana purred in response. They...

Author: By Lesley R. Winters, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: The Stable Boy | 9/25/2008 | See Source »

...With perfect control, she grabbed his collar and ripped open his shirt. She heard the buttons skitter to the floor as she stared at the damp hair clinging to his pallid chest. She paused, breathing heavily, as Frederick blinked at her. Almost trembling with contempt, she pursed her lips and spat in his face...

Author: By Lesley R. Winters, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: The Stable Boy | 4/14/2008 | See Source »

This past week, complaints about Harvard University Dining Services’ (HUDS) increasingly pallid dinner offerings have been mounting on open lists across campus. Apparently, the usual dinner fare has taken a dive off the deep end recently (living off-campus this year, I myself remain relatively insulated from the decline...

Author: By Juliet S. Samuel | Title: Hello, Ethanol. Goodbye, Bacon. | 3/12/2008 | See Source »

...vice chairman Bob Lutz bristles at the notion that this model is a pallid redesign of Chevy's mid-market sedan. His take: it's upscale Euro-styling. The car launches this year...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Hot Cars in the Motor City | 1/4/2007 | See Source »

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