Ofelia, wandering through a tunnel, encounters the Pale Man sitting motionless at the head of a banquet table covered with food.

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All of us who write for those magazines are really nothing more than pale imitators of the man.

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The arrival of his long-lost younger brother, Benny (Alden Ehrenreich, a pale and determined young man reminiscent of Leonardo DiCaprio), conjures up the bad memories of earlier family life that caused Tetro to travel far and refuse contact.

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Then it's back to Pale to allow the leading man to experiment with still more exotic contortions.

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On the old man's pale, plump back was a painted library of books.

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The captain was a short, stocky man, with a greasy fringe of pale hair that jutted out beyond his hat.

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Another friend tells me he was sitting in a tiny cafe having coffee a few days ago, when a young man in his 20s turned up, pale and shaken.

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The 43-year-old man in the worn-out navy jersey looks lifeless today - pale, round face, unkempt beard and mustache, eyes closed.

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Nearby, an unidentified man in sober black, painted a quarter-century later and standing against pale, classicizing architecture, epitomizes the more restrained taste of La Serenissima with its miraculously varied textures, transparencies and sheens, within an uncompromising silhouette of inky darkness.

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What drives a man to misrepresent his achievements in this context, when the incremental gain in credibility seems to pale in comparison to the potential loss of credibility he could face (and now has) if the lie comes to light?

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