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That condition has led to improvised shelters and the use of nearby buildings. At the No. 1 Mass. Ave. stop across from Holyoke Center, for example, people often take cover under the front stoop of Wadsworth House...
...when the spirit moves her, the author can drop nostalgia and pick up a skewer. A short piece entitled "Your Perfected Hostess" takes apart dishes that have become instant clichés, like vichyssoise and quiche. Of vichyssoise made with substitute ingredients, she writes, "Those people, however, who won't stoop to tinned soups but still want to be in the swim with their vichyssoise, have taken to using cucumber instead of leeks, and watercress or mint instead of chives . . . The mixture is still thick and rich and cold--and what's, after all, in a name...
...provisions of the USA PATRIOT Act, the legislation continues to serve as a flashpoint for criticism of the Bush Administration. Yet, when opposition groups such as the American Civil Liberties Union make accusations that the act threatens or tramples our cherished First, Fourth and Fifth Amendment rights, they stoop to the level of misinformation and fear-mongering that they claim their opponents inhabit. In reality, the statute sensibly closes loopholes that tied the hands of counter-terrorism agencies in the pre-9/11 world. One need not support Bush nor his anti-terror policies to appreciate its importance...
...olive green Range Rover. It was a joy to see the city through his eyes. One day we drove over to an apartment on the Northwest Side where he'd lived as a child, and loitered in front of a burgundy-brick three-flat with a concrete stoop and a tiny yard surrounded by necklace-like chains. We stood on the cracked sidewalk as if contemplating a shrine...
...comix would use the sequence to set up Ganges as a straw man for obvious jabs at the middle class lifestyle, but Huizenga invests something more into his character, whose name, after all, evokes mystical rivers of the East. The sequence ends, not insignificantly, with Glenn sitting on his stoop, lost in thought, with the moon over his shoulder. Is he a generic avatar or deep, complex character? Ganges becomes both as Huizenga puts him through various scenarios that straddle the border between reality and fantasy...