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“We watched them install it one night. It’s not like they talk to us or ask us for permission,” he said, a wan smile on his face.

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“Our ultimate dream was to eat our favorite food before we died. One neighbor, I remember, he was craving a French fry — just one,” Ayoub said, a wan smile on his face at the memory.

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Place a serpentine sofa in the middle of a room and you’ll instantly transform it from wan white box to theater-worthy.

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With “Wickedest,” a boisterous album highlight, she laments that “Everybody want to lie, they want to fight, they want to get me / Thеy wan’ kill me … When they really don’t know me.”

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The terrific Beecham is saddled with a dismal hairdo and an even more dismal role, her character simply an object of wan yearning for the drowsy John.

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