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...rats desert a sinking ship, mice teem over this one. There are mouse ears on the walls, lamps and smokestacks. A life-size Mickey strolls the decks, waving a cheery hi. Minnie is also aboard, flirting shamelessly; if she spoke, she would be saying, "Hello, sailor!" A huge Goofy adorns the stern. And when the Magic leaves port, the ship's horn blasts seven ominous notes: "When...you...wish...up...on...a...star...
...traffic andhigh-rise buildings, or just want to see cleanwater, take a quick 45-minute drive to Marblehead.The only objects obstructing the horizon aresailboat masts. Located along the North Shore,Marblehead is a quaint historic harbor town andbirthplace of the U.S. Navy. The narrow serpentinestreets of Old Marblehead teem with history andhouse exquisite boutiques that would appeal to thetastes of Martha Stewart...
Fischer says that the international inquiry wasn't meant to implicate the government: "Its purpose would be to establish the facts of the massacres, some specific culpability--things which are notably absent in this case." Yet Algerian officials, who maintain the violence is only "residual" even as public squares teem with villagers seeking refuge, continue to refuse any outside interference. For many Algerians it will be a long, terrifying January...
Forget dreary vote counts. The only question now is, How strong a hold does the 42nd President have on the popular imagination? Will Sotheby's teem with spendthrifts three decades from now when Chelsea Clinton auctions off her father's jogging shorts...
Hare's plays usually teem with ideas and political passion. He took on the British justice system in Murmuring Judges, postwar disillusion in Plenty, the church in Racing Demon. Skylight is a more modest piece, essentially a two-character drama about a wealthy restaurateur who arrives at the bleak little flat of his former mistress and tries to rekindle their affair. First we learn, rather tediously, the background of their relationship: they met when she went to work at one of his restaurants; she left him three years ago; his wife has since died of cancer. Then, after some getting...