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...Sorel, Jacobina Martin stands out. Sorel realizes that her family has plunged headlong into the abyss of eccentricity and wants to do something to improve the situation. Martin manages to portray both sides of her character well, shifting easily between the personalities of a pouting child and a semi-sophisticated young woman. She cries and whines a lot, but she gives her character a tragicomic aura that earns the audience's sympathies...
...Dave A. Grout '89, a resident in the 10-man suite, said, "This suite is only semi-private. Anyone who rings up and wants to watch television is let in. We don't know who is coming...
Walking into a strip club, the adrenaline starts pumping through the body in anticipation of vicarious thrills. But then, once in, I looked up at the semi-nude dancer, and it was no big deal. She was just dancing--doing...
...city can be seen from millions of different angles, and for each perspective there exists a separate city. This is a semi-philosophical, tending towards vacuous, if not outright moronic, and certainly not original, idea--which is actually true...
Picture Boston in your mind. Maybe you've looked at a map and have a fuzzy sense of a thumb-shaped downtown, filled with whorls of streets and alleys, all surrounded by a sprawling blend of semi-cities and crawling, industrialized rivers. If there are some places on that map you've actually been to, they'll be clear--the gold dome of the State House, restaurant lights at Faneuil Hall, tile mosaics in the T, that huge cantilevered sculpture thing in front of the aquarium. Whatever. The secondhand knowledge you have about Boston, as a center for culture, weird...