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...Open tennis tournament a few weeks ago, an attendant managing the crowd rather rudely shoved me against a wall. I asked why, and he suddenly became aware that I spoke English. He then said, "Use the other exit." And more than once, when carrying a couple of plastic or paper bags on a visit to friends, I have been asked by the doorman not to leave menus in the hallway after I delivered the Chinese food...
...between two parentheses--looks too tiny to support the strong, soulful melismata that flow from her lips. In fact, Aguilera's talent seems to require more space than the teen-pop world can provide. While Mandy Moore and the like go comfortably about the business of churning out plastic pop--and Britney Spears manufactures successful distractions like her strip tease at the recent MTV Video Music Awards--Aguilera's vocals strain and flutter against the confinement of her songs, a sea gull in a parakeet cage...
Adam R. Kampff '02 said when he turned to confront the group, they became agitated, and one man was physically restrained by others. Following a brief verbal altercation, one man hit Kampff on the forehead with a plastic recycling...
...stop women between the age of 15 and 25 on the sidewalks, and then handcuff their "husbands or fathers, boyfriends or brothers" who came to the women's aid. Then they would slap the cuffed men and punch them in their groins. "Some of the men were flexi-cuffed [plastic handcuffs] while they were being hit multiple times by various members of the squad, and they were not able to fight back or defend themselves," the interpreter said. "They would also grab people who were watching what was going on, handcuff them, and hit them also...
...furry type, mind you. We're talking about computer mice. The white, plastic type who reside in labs like Maxwell Dworkin and the Science Center. Each day, they bolt across their pads, from one corner to the other, dragging, dropping, zooming, clicking, clicking, never resting...