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...hard to imagine surviving even a single day, as the details of the hostages' living conditions piled up: airless, windowless cells barely larger than a grave, in which the men could not stand upright. Extreme temperatures, both hot and cold. Constant battles with mosquitoes. The same clothes year after year, sometimes only underwear and socks. Filthy blindfolds that infected their eyes, but could not be removed when a guard was in the room. Steel chains that were never unlocked, save for the 10-minute daily visit to the "toilet," a fetid hole in the ground. Months without baths. Then bathing...
...first breath is the most difficult breath you ever take," she says. The differences in air pressure between the atmosphere and the newly born infant's lung, which is airless, create this difficulty. In infants with RDS, breathing is even harder...
...ideal of home has been grossly sentimentalized from time to time, of course, just as mothers and small towns have been. Both can be suffocating, like an interminable Sunday in an airless house. Home is a place to run away from when the time comes...
Then came mad panic. In the scramble to escape, hundreds were crushed under the frantic feet of their co-religionists; others collapsed in the airless heat. "It was terrible," an Arab survivor told Saudi television. "When one stumbled, scores trampled him and hundreds fell on top of them." According to Islamic teachings, to die while on the hajj ensures immediate ascension to heaven. On that day 1,426 Muslims earned the privilege...
...Threepenny Opera originated as a leftist diatribe, and is even more of one in John Dexter's snarly, airless staging. Michael Feingold's translation claims to reflect more authentically the 1928 Berlin debut than the Marc Blitzstein version popularized in the '50s. It is surely less effective. For example, it freights the naive scrubwoman anger of Pirate Jenny with sophisticated detail that is out of character, and enervatingly transforms the last syllable of the second-act finale from a strident long vowel to a swallowed short one. Jocelyn Herbert's cumbersome set obstructs movement, draining energy. But emotion intensifies after...