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...belie the importance of the true measure of victory, the paramount qualities of grit and mettle that buttress more dimensioned performers. Neither Morisette nor Manson ever maximized their potential in either of these areas, and the supreme entertainment value that each of them brought to the concert couldn't mask these weaknesses. The audience loved Morissette and Garbage for the pomp and rarity of embracing a mutual moment with cultural icons, but the relationship never cut deeper than the shared hype...
...ANYONE MISPLACED A Halloween mask with a pump that sprays red "blood?" A few months ago, it turned up in dorm crew's Weld basement office, a Yard-wide depot for items lost and found. After it spent a month unclaimed, though, dorm crew threw it out. This lost and found only keeps its loot for about a month before it's shipped off to the homeless. Apparently, the homeless didn't want the mask...
China has done much to liberalize its economy and its society in the years since I lived in Hong Kong. While the garishly lit skyscrapers of Beijing and Shanghai may mask continuing poverty, China has begun to cast off the worst vestiges of communism. On the international front, Beijing has sometimes been helpful, trying to cool tensions between India and Pakistan, keeping North Korean military ambitions in check and usually abstaining (rather than voting no) on U.N. ballots to use force in the Persian Gulf and the Balkans...
...time the stage broke (apparently a supporting pillar cracked), so clearly, the stage's problems did not detract from what was happening on stage. Sometime during the second act there was another crashing sound (this time I noticed it) and the actors quickly rearranged some of the blocks to mask whatever harm had been done to it. The cast certainly believed that "the show must...
...sentences, but they clearly can finish one another's thoughts. And there is tremendous camaraderie. "Let me tell you this about Alan's tennis game," jokes Summers, an occasional opponent on the court. "He is very good [pause] for his age." Says Greenspan, with a broad grin designed to mask what is either sarcasm or a psych job: "Larry is really almost as good as a professional player...